When you send your models out in
ridiculous shoes, something bad is bound to happen. It's a fashion fact
one designer learnt the hard way.
Ukrainian-born London-based knitwear designer Ekaterina Kukhareva finished her show at London Fashion Week with a clumsy fall as one model struggled to walk in a pair of her slippery-looking, plastic conceptual heels.
At the finale of her Autumn/Winter 2013/14 show, held at Freemason's Hall yesterday, a model slipped and fell, breaking her clutch bag.
Between ogling the tumble, you'll spot influences from Russia to Cleopatra in this Central Saint Martin’s graduate's collection.
Of course, today's calamity
isn't the first time a model has taken a tumble on the catwalk. In
February last year at the Dennis Basso show, one unlucky clotheshorse
took a trip seemingly on account of the length of the skirt she was
wearing.
The pretty blonde came crashing down when the hem of the billowing floor-length skirt became caught under her feet.
Nevertheless
she gathered herself up again and continued walking with barely a trace
of embarrassment, or sense of humour for that matter, visible on her
face.
In 2011 a model at the Amanda Wakeley show got her heel tangled in the long hemline of her dress, leaving her struggling to free it as she stumbled up the catwalk.
A sympathetic audience willed her on as she attempted to untangle herself from the fabric.
She eventually freed her trapped high heel to continue her walk, only to trip again as she exited the runway.
A source once admitted to the MailOnline that falling on the catwalk can be a career-threatening mistake for new models.
'It's quite common for girls to be quietly dropped by their agents after tripping or falling during a show,' they said.
'As far as the designers are concerned the model's job is to make the clothes look fantastic. That's compromised when she starts stumbling down the catwalk like a drunk.
'If
the girl is what the model industry calls a 'new face' it could
terminate her career before she's even really got started. Walking is
how new faces launch or raise their profile in order to land moneyed
jobs like advertising campaigns.'
However, even experienced supermodels like Naomi Campbell can sometimes fall victim to the occupational hazard. She famously fell in 1993 when runway modelling for Vivienne Westwood.
There are apparently a few tricks of the trade that models rely on to avoid such disasters. These include requesting bone-crushingly small sizes to make sure their feet are wedged firmly inside the shoes.
And some girls have been known to sandpaper the bottoms of the show shoes to give them extra grip on the runway surface.
Ukrainian-born London-based knitwear designer Ekaterina Kukhareva finished her show at London Fashion Week with a clumsy fall as one model struggled to walk in a pair of her slippery-looking, plastic conceptual heels.
At the finale of her Autumn/Winter 2013/14 show, held at Freemason's Hall yesterday, a model slipped and fell, breaking her clutch bag.
Going... Ekaterina Kukhareva finished her show at London Fashion Week with a clumsy fall
Going... one model struggled to walk in a pair of her slippery-looking, plastic conceptual heels
Gone! At the finale of her show the model slipped and fell, breaking her clutch bag
The pretty blonde came crashing down when the hem of the billowing floor-length skirt became caught under her feet.
A model trips over her skirt and falls on the runway during the Dennis Basso Fall show, February 2012
Going, going gone! The model seemingly tripped due to the length of her billowing skirt
In 2011 a model at the Amanda Wakeley show got her heel tangled in the long hemline of her dress, leaving her struggling to free it as she stumbled up the catwalk.
A sympathetic audience willed her on as she attempted to untangle herself from the fabric.
She eventually freed her trapped high heel to continue her walk, only to trip again as she exited the runway.
Caught up: The model's heel becomes snagged in
the hemline of her long dress and she struggles to free herself so she
can continue her walk up the runway
A source once admitted to the MailOnline that falling on the catwalk can be a career-threatening mistake for new models.
'It's quite common for girls to be quietly dropped by their agents after tripping or falling during a show,' they said.
'As far as the designers are concerned the model's job is to make the clothes look fantastic. That's compromised when she starts stumbling down the catwalk like a drunk.
Dreaded moments: Left, a model at a Mark Fast
show in 2011 repeatedly stumbled when her heel became caught up in the
loose-knit dress she wore; right, a model trips at an Amaya Arzuaga show
the same year
Well handled: Naomi Campbell fell on the
Vivienne Westwood catwalk in Paris back in 1993, but managed to handle
the issue with grace
However, even experienced supermodels like Naomi Campbell can sometimes fall victim to the occupational hazard. She famously fell in 1993 when runway modelling for Vivienne Westwood.
There are apparently a few tricks of the trade that models rely on to avoid such disasters. These include requesting bone-crushingly small sizes to make sure their feet are wedged firmly inside the shoes.
And some girls have been known to sandpaper the bottoms of the show shoes to give them extra grip on the runway surface.
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