runway. And it is an art form. I think the basics of walking is learning where to position

your weight, where to position your shoulders. It's very relaxed. You have to keep your body

straight, your neck is straight, your shoulders are straight.

You have to remember that you are showing clothes, and you have to also remember specifically

who you are walking for. Because, there is kind of different walks. But, the basics are,

you want to keep your shoulders back, your hips forward, and your feet straight. Which

all sounds really easy in the beginning, but once you really start walking and putting

all the moving parts together, it's really difficult.

You have to keep your weight a little bit forward, you don't want to put all the weight

on your heel. You want to look like you are gliding. Your face is completely relaxed,

like you're not thinking about it and it's second nature, and you're not singing the

words to the song, which is also something that happens in the beginning. Balance their

stride, balance their weight, and keep the shift of their body and their arms to their

sides. If you swing your arms too much, it's a huge distraction. So, you want to keep everything

really simple and walk very basically.

It's very simple, it's very balanced, and it's in high heels. And the way you practice

this at home, if you want to become confident in learning how to walk as a model, you put

a full length mirror at the end of your hall. Hopefully, it's just a flat surface, and you

walk back and forth.

When a model first comes to New York, that is all they do, is just keep practicing. You

have models come in the agency all the time, and they are critiqued. Different agents go

and watch them, how they walk in certain heels, walking in a variety of high heels. Sometimes

at shows at the last minute, you don't get the perfect size of shoe, so you have to learn

to walk in different sizes, because at the very end of the day, you have to be able to

start and finish the runway with whatever you have on, and make it look great.

Knowing that you are walking from your head to your toe, that it's very straight but it's

balanced, keeping your arms to your sides, that's what really makes a great walk. And

no one knows how to do that without practicing. Walking is one of the key things that you

have to practice, that you have to practice all the time.