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Anybody has this article's transcript, entitled " A Model Walk" from Los Angeles Times, posted somewhere in these boards some time ago? I've got the link bookmarked (http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/cl-et-runway15oct15,0,5355859.story?coll=la-home-style) but it doesn't work anymore, guess they removed the artice or somethin'. old news or whatever. It talks about the model's way of walking down the runway, Gisele's "horse-trotting", then about Angela Lindvall's signature walk, and another model's, as well...if anybody has it, Id really appreciate a copy, please?

Thanks in advance :wave: Aloha

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Hey guys :)

Anybody has this article's transcript, entitled " A Model Walk" from Los Angeles Times, posted somewhere in these boards some time ago? I've got the link bookmarked (http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/cl-et-runway15oct15,0,5355859.story?coll=la-home-style) but it doesn't work anymore, guess they removed the artice or somethin'. old news or whatever. It talks about the model's way of walking down the runway, Gisele's "horse-trotting", then about Angela Lindvall's signature walk, and another model's, as well...if anybody has it, Id really appreciate a copy, please?

Thanks in advance :wave: Aloha

.......Here we go :heythere:

Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles, Calif.

Author: Leslie Gornstein

Date: Oct 15, 2005

Start Page: E.1

Section: Calendar; Part E; Calendar Desk

Document Types: Feature

Text Word Count: 1628

What'd they expect? Nobody walks in L.A.

Fashion Week looming, designers long for local models who can move.

Compounding the city's strut shortage, stylists say, are the competing fashion weeks in Europe, which siphon much talent away from Los Angeles; the irresistible acting bug, which distracts many local models from taking the time to practice a good glide; and a puny high-fashion economy compared to such meccas as Paris, Milan, London or New York. Unlike the living clothes hangers lucky or talented enough to work in a couture capital, Los Angeles models are often expected to work for "trade," that is, in exchange for clothes rather than cash. And, designers lament, you get what you pay for.

Some clients prefer models to place one foot precisely in front of the other, a literal "cat walk." Others like their models to accentuate hips by crossing their legs in front of one another. There's the "horse trot," popularized by towering super-Brazilian Gisele Bundchen a few years ago. There's the unlabeled, bouncier step preferred for casual wear, said to be demonstrated well by model Angela Lindvall. There's the "slouch," which took London by storm last year and left fashion writers bewildered. There's the sulky, grungy walk involving glowering models with almost no hips. And there's "the glide," official gait of the $30,000 couturier.

Of course, there are exceptions to every rule in fashion; if Naomi Campbell wants to scissor-walk down a runway, clients would be pressing their luck to instruct her otherwise. But for the most part, designers say, a desirable strut calls for two steady feet, ideally size 8 to 10, that never rise higher than 4 inches off the ground. Knees should bend less than 90 degrees -- a common mistake that makes goose steppers out of models, [Jasmine Dustin] says; 45 degrees is much better. Arms, ideally, have minimal swing.

Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission.

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