![]() The model had previously fallen at Versace’s SS12 and AW14 shows, before spraining her ankle during a rehearsal for Jean Paul Gaultier’s SS15 couture show. When Lindsey Wixson retired from what she called “this high heel business” in 2017 she stated it was due to her foot injury. Abbey Lee Kershaw tore a ligament in her knee when she fell at Rodarte’s SS09 show. Some top models have even been forced to take a break from runway modelling due to injuries sustained from falls caused by uncomfortable footwear. “I always have to wear trainers in my day to day life just to give my feet a break.” “I’ve definitely messed up my feet and ankles from all the high heels I’ve worn,” says Lavender. Each season, models finish Paris Fashion Week with feet blistered, battered, and bruised. ![]() The discomfort of runway shoes is well documented. “You end up walking unnaturally because your feet go numb.” “Providing shoes in the wrong size is a big problem in the industry,” says runway model Claudia Lavender, 24. ![]() “If I make Anna happy with Leon? Perfect.Footwear is often a source of stress for models at fashion week, not least because they often have to force their feet into shoes that are several sizes too big or small. “This is not the first time” he and Dame have created a walk together, after all, but “maybe because this time, it was a bit like, Wow.” He sounded overjoyed to see it take off: “I love that people are laughing because you know, we are doing all of this for fun,” he said. Nonetheless, he was surprised by the reaction The Walk received. His experience with the McQueen show stuck in his mind, and he began to build a career advising designers and models on their walks. “I was like, ‘What am I doing? I’m just.walking!’” She enlisted him to teach the other models to walk, and after a few more years of dance, including working for Aaron Sillis, who has choreographed for pop stars like Rihanna and Katy Perry, he was eventually enlisted to choreograph an FKA Twigs shoot for Wonderland Magazine. When he was cast in an Alexander McQueen show, designer Sarah Burton pulled him aside to express her gratitude for his incredible walk. being original.” He told Dame to “show people the freedom we can create as young people,” and to “give the best energy and just show that you can be yourself, and you can be whatever you want to be right now.”īoguslawski is trained as a dancer and choreographer, and got his start dancing in London, where he also did some modeling. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.īoguslawski has worked with Dame, a Margiela regular, for several seasons now, so this walk was built on “what we created before.” He added that, “For a lot of fashion shows, wouldn’t be right, because this beautiful, simple model walk. He just likes people who look interesting in general, and have something to say.” “The main idea is that he just likes characters. “John just wants people to be themselves,” Boguslawski said in a phone call from Paris Thursday morning. ![]() Maison Margiela artistic director John Galliano has worked for the past year with Pat Boguslawski, a movement director and former runway model, to choreographs the models’ walks. ![]() His moody glare only added to the appealing strangeness, and video clips made the moment an instantaneous meme. Model Leon Dame, wearing a belted leather jacket with sailor’s striped flap collar, tighty-whities, and knee-high high-heel boots, took a chaotic, energized strut down the runway, and then preened for the cameras in the pit like the camped-up little brother of a legendary ’90s supermodel. That thing arrived on Wednesday, in the form of the finale walk at Maison Margiela. Every season, something so wild happens at Paris Fashion Week that it ricochets well beyond the industry’s Instagram-friendly world of exclusivity. ![]()
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