Early in Wednesday's game, those Cardinals looked discordant and flustered, taking a collective gulp in the spotlight.
After the disgrace of Galliano, the Dior show ended with the democratic sight of anonymous, white-coated ateliers taking a collective bow at the end of the catwalk.
The wisdom of taking a collective approach to cross-border environmental problems is backed up by the Government's own analysis of the UK's relationship with the EU, in its "balance of competences" review.
England's batting coach also advises the folly of obsessing about Mitchell Johnson in the second Test at the Adelaide Oval, and the attendant danger therefore of taking a collective eye off Australia's other skilful bowlers.
Coca Cola, for example, is trying by taking a collective action approach to rising water challenges, Nestlé is wrestling to find solutions for a more sustainable cocoa value chain and Kraft Foods supports African Cashew farmers.
With nearly everyone in Paris taking a collective pause, thinking outside fashion and the present moment, burrowing into the early years of a house, if that is one's job, and renegotiating their deal with women, I wondered what Riccardo Tisci would do at Givenchy.
