There must be a reason why someone so beautiful would learn to walk so strange. With apologies to Anheuser-Busch’s Budweiser beer, today’s fashion shows are cluttered with beautiful Clydesdales. Seemingly gorgeous models strut their six foot, 100-pound frames down a runway and look like sultry horses.
Why do models walk that way? What way? You know, like, that way. The way models walk. Why?
My friend Barbara Marie Hambi (Bambi) was a model in her younger and thinner days. Before food and all the love-hate relationships.
She says some models are gifted and have a natural ‘gait.’ Others have to be taught, and some top runway models have walking ‘coaches.’
Tough work, if you can find it.
There’s the “Versace walk.” It’s kind of a va-va-voom and shake it walk.
There’s the “Street walk.” Bambi says Street means no swish; more like how people walk on the street in New York. Cold and quick.
There are variations of the street, some less exaggerated; probably tailored for Cleveland styles (is there such a thing?).
Most models on the runway, at least, those I’ve seen when tagging along with my taller and more socially adept blonde buddy, have a swagger.
No, make that an ‘haughty swagger; as if they mean to walk right up to you, step on your toes, swish, reverse course and stride into the sunset.
Without blinking; in love only with themselves.
I can’t find an answer for the “why?” Bambi says a walk is important, must be within certain ‘accepted’ parameters for style and grace; you got it or you don’t.
Shrug. Some runway models look like they’ve been force fed raw spinach greens and lima beans along with their daily portion of gruel; then told they’ll get Hostess cupcakes and a box of Little Debbie cakes if they walk the walk (whatever that is).
I’ve seen the Clydesdale horses at the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis. They’re beautiful animals. Runway models walk the same way.
Even without the fashion and perfect skin, they’re beautiful animals. If I had skin like that I’d be in love with me, too.
I’ve often wondered the same. Why? Even the photo above shows that long, lanky, exaggerated gait—and a few inches between the thighs. It’s not normal, for sure.
How does one learn how to walk like this,are there books or tapes that you can learn from??
LOL. Runway work tough? That is funny. I use to model on the men’s runway. Yes, it is very hard to get the work (even more so for men), but once you get it, you get paid extremely well (especially the top women) and assuming you like to walk down the runway it is a lot of fun. Moreover, there are lots of perks like travel and parties.
The walk also is more of a guideline. Many of the top models bring their own walk. If you have it you have it.
I am sitting here watching “Runway” and I can’t believe these beautiful models walk the way they do. Some say it’s like a horse gait and sometimes it does look like that but why do they criss-cross walk? Why would a human want to walk like a horse or criss-cross to fall. People do not walk like this in real life so why not make them just add a little somthing to a normal walk. I have seen them do it and it looks good. These are beautiful women in beautiful clothes and it just looks stupid to me.
Has anyone try to walk that fast in heels that high (that don’t fit you) with you hips in the right place and back straight? It’s so much easier to not trip over yourself if you pick up your feet. And it’s also easier to walk in a straight line if you put your feet in front of each other…another reason to pick up your feet.