I noticed this very silly news story on which there is really no need to comment at all, but nonetheless I shall do so, merely in order to drag my soul further into the mud of other people's contempt.
I'm going to quote the whole thing here, because it's very short:
Sasha Baron-Cohen, best known for his eccentric character Borat, made a shock appearance on a Milan catwalk.
The actor brought the Agatha Ruiz de la Prada show to a halt, which resulted in security guards stepping in.
Baron-Cohen – who is in the Italian city making a new film based on his character Bruno, a flamboyant Austrian fashionista – was escorted off the catwalk and the show started again.
Despite the models keeping their cool, the Spanish designer was visibly upset when she appeared at the end of her show.
Ruiz de la Prada is famous for her brightly-coloured designs which represent humour, boldness and nature.
I've seen the clip. Or a clip. "Shock appearance" and bringing the "show to a halt" sounds like journalistic hyperbole to me. In the nanosecond of footage I saw, Sasha simply walked down the catwalk in a silly outfit. I'm surprised that anyone even noticed. Apparently people did notice, though. I wonder what the criteria were for deciding that the other models were serious and Sasha was an intrusion? It would be fascinating to find out. Anyway, as far as I can judge, what really brought the show to a halt were the security guards mentioned, whose black silhouettes appeared in the footage I saw, and were much more disturbing than Sasha. I wonder if the security guards were also part of Ruiz de la Prada's representation of "humour, boldness and nature".
I would have thought the whole thing was hilarious, however, if it were my art show, I might have thought he was trying to steal my thunder albiet just a few minutes. But then again, I’m pretty even tempered and I might have joined him on the catwalk for a goofy dance instead of having security remove him.
I suppose terrorism has given everyone with a penchant for grim control an excuse to have no sense of humour. Or something like that. Does anyone actually know that Ruiz de la Prada’s work represents humour, boldness and nature, or is it just something that they’re told to stick in their press releases as a generic description, I wonder? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa_ePERLvK4I think that shows just how much thought some of these designers put into their work. They really know what they’re about. He’s done the same thing with other designers.