Megan ByrneFalling again - for New York
February 17th 2009 00:08
Will someone please tell designers to stop being so unrealistic about footwear?! We acknowledge that you males love a women of Amazonian proportions, 6 foot, forever inches, but please: stop strapping young women into skyscrapers when they clearly do not have enough padding to cushion the fall.
Poor Monika Jagaciak was one of several models to slip or take the full plunge at Max Azria's Herve Leger show at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York on the weekend.
Or watch the fall here
This is not the first time designers have reached for the skies; the same happened at the Prada show at Milan Fashion week last year (click here to read about that debacle), and yet they do not learn. Surely they are devastated when the style and elegance of a collection is diminished by a dirty great face-plant? Apparently not: "No, I don't care!" Mr Azria said. "If people talk about that instead of the clothes, that would be ridiculous." Sympathy personified. We are talking about the clothes Mr Azria, or the shoes at least, and how cruel you are to make people wear them. Would love to see you try.
AFP reported that the heels worn during his shows and others ranged between 10 and 18cm. But Mr Azria claimed the falls were due to the floor surface - a shiny dark wood - and not the height of the heels. Tell him he's dreaming.
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