In early March, he had just got back from Brazil, where he and Hugo Marchand, his studio director, had gone to work on the summer collection for next year.

NEWYORKER: Sole Mate

Sander moved back into her studio and got straight to work on both the men's collection, which she showed in June, and the spring-summer womenswear collection in September.

WSJ: Fashion Designer Jil Sander Makes a Comeback

Today, a treat: A first-look at the Spring Summer 2011 collection from Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig, the brains behind Marchesa.

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At this January's haute couture collection for spring and summer, only 20 designers put their creative talents to the catwalk test.

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Late last summer, Algeria finally unveiled a collection of legislative changes meant to kick-start a faltering, but incredibly important oil and gas sector.

FORBES: Fresh Trouble for Algerian Oil and Gas

It will be a summer of upheaval for whoever takes charge, with a collection of highly-paid players, led by Owen, likely to quit the club.

BBC: Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle

"This effectively means that the data collection for the EIAs will be conducted within the short summer season, since the companies involved only started them in Spring 2000, " said Arni Finnsson of the Iceland Nature Conservation Association.

CNN: Iceland locked in national dam dispute

In the country, on terra firma, a doctor of good family could play cards and chess with well-born friends, and supervise his gardens and the collection of rents from his tenant farmers, all the while staying clear of the infections summer brought to Venice.

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