At this year’s South by Southwest festival, Lady Gaga invited a performance artist to vomit on her, in a move that likely provoked some to question her artistic vision, if not her sanity. For others ...

“Runway shows are a festival of eccentricity—the audience and the show itself. But there is a safety to them as well. It’s a similar design process, and you know what’s going to happen. Sometimes I ...

“Eccentric” is not usually the first word used to describe a movie star’s galvanizing performance. “Sexy,” “tough,” “romantic,” “powerful,” “charismatic” are far more common. In fact, “eccentric” ...

If we ever meet, you might notice my hand slip down the back of my trousers to caress my buttocks. I also have a habit of going off at inappropriate tangents during conversation and am borderline ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Are chief executives getting more eccentric? It might seem so. From xenophobic rants on earnings calls to ...