On models and "the walk."

There is so much pomp ascribed to "the walk" in lesser circles of fashion, but the only logical reason high-end runway models must be trained to walk is that they are gangly 5'9"-6'2" tall 15 year-old girls in 4 inch heels who don't have enough experience in those kinds of shoes to be walking a straight line in odd lighting conditions on a slick surface, sometimes with a 20 foot train behind them, without some serious practice.

Either they have a sense of balance or they don't. If they don't, you cannot send them down the catwalk, they're a danger to the show and to themselves.

The style and presence that make a walk superior cannot be drilled, it has to come from within. A teacher cannot be acting like a deranged drill sargent and expecting the model to come around, because what needs to be reached is a state of mind. Sending a model off to a corner alone for two minutes so they can clear their head will do a hell of a lot more good than bitching at them for 20 minutes.