I missed the 2nd model workshop bc it was my birthday and had dinner with my family, so now I have to skip ahead to the 3rd model workshop.
This workshop took place at Glave Kocen Gallery at 1620 W.
Main St. at 3:00 p.m. We were told ahead
of time to wear sneakers but bring our heels.
I read this as “bring comfortable shoes that at least resemble sneakers”. I just figured we’d be doing some sort of
exercise to help our walk techniques. In
actuality, I just had the exercise part right.
We were in for a “Model Bootcamp”. And like a genius, I wore my most fashionable
but most uncomfortable pair of sneakers- floral old-school high tops that had
about an inch of height in the heel. Lame!
But luckily the “workout” was more like an easy warm up for any fitness
class I’ve ever been in. Plus I was
still nursing a knee injury I’d been trying to heal for months, so I got to
pass on certain exercises. While I
failed to even work up a sweat, it did get my heart rate up and it was
hilarious to see all the models (in our white t-shirts/tank tops and black
leggings or jeans) jumping around and running in place in this narrow gallery
space. I was also surprised to hear the
amount of groans during the workout, making it sound like a lot of these models
didn’t actually work out. Like ever. Damn youngins.
(Photo courtesy of Jimmy Budd)
Then it was time for walk practice, and this time a veteran
of New York Fashion Week came down to give each of us pointers on our walks. I was around the 4th person to go
bc I was in a rush to get out of there (had a shoot the next day in DC and
still needed to finalize some things).
Unforunately, the one time we had a legit person there who could give me
good, valuable advice, my knee injury affected my walk so much that I couldn’t
full extend my left leg or put too much pressure on it. Apparently this made my walk look like I was
just “going to the grocery store”. I was
the first person who had to go back and repeat the walk 2 or 3 times. But on the plus side, I was told that my
facial expression and poses were great! So yay!
Then that was it for me and I was out of there while the
rest of the models waited in line for their turn. Man, I hope my knee is 100% healed before
Fashion Week…nervousneeeeeess….
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