Derek Zoolander — the male model played by Ben Stiller who first appeared as a gag character in 1996’s VH1 Fashion Awards, and who later went on to star in 2001’s cult classic film — made a surprise appearance yesterday on a catwalk at Paris Fashion Week, where he stole some dude’s iPhone, then flashed Blue Steel all over Vine.
Zoolander was at Paris Fashion Week as a way of announcing Zoolander 2. He wasn’t alone. Also walking the catwalk was Owen Wilson in the guise of his male model counterpart, Hansel McDonald. Hansel seemed to be able to refrain from stealing iPhones, though.
The guy Zoolander stole the iPhone from was Jerome Jarre, a popular Vine user with over 8.2 million followers (and, as you can see from his other videos, a confirmed iPhone user). He’s a 24-year-old French entrepreneur who quit his business to focus on making money on Vine, which, in its own way, makes him just as much of a parody as Derek Zoolander.
Obviously, Zoolander, or his assistant, ended up returning Jarre’s iPhone after the show.
Zoolander 2 will release on February 12th, 2016.
Source: Vine
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3 responses to “Derek Zoolander stole this dude’s iPhone at Paris Fashion Week”
TOTALLY not PR dot dot dot
This was hilarious! Turns out that Jerome and Ben are friends. On Jerome’s SnapChat he quite often uploads Stories and “movements” for people that follow him, ie; “film yourself and make some random person smile”.
About 3 weeks ago Jerome and Ben travelled around NYC together to create a mini-episode movement on his My Story together.
Might be interesting to see what else these two get up to.
It’s not just some random dude. And he didn’t “steal” the phone. The thing was staged. They were hanging out backstage before that.