Nina Porter

[Islandili]

I'm sorry to say this but her walk is a no, a big no. And unfortunately her face doesn't make up for it.

 

[FrenchCactus]

I hope it was just a shoe problem, but she did NOT make a good first impression on the runway.

 

[Magnus]

She fell at Burberry Prorsum...when she closed the show, too. She must feel really embarrassed.

Really? Oh no!

 

[rox_yr_sox]

Her walk was soooo awkward and ungainly at Burberry that it was uncomfortable just to watch. I really want to see what the fall looked like; Burberry cut it out of their videos!

 

[Islandili]

Maybe it's the shoes? Not her size?
Since she is smaller than the other models.

 

[Magnus]

It looks like you forgot one, krisz0630! I don't know how to get HQ's from style.it, so here's a LQ version

style.it

 

[Bamhutt]

Maybe it's the shoes? Not her size?
Since she is smaller than the other models.

yeah, I heard all the shoes were 41 or 42

 

[sobriquet87]

Poor thing. She's so bad on the runway. She needs to just stick to editorials.
But she's gorgeous.

Pictures of her fall:

Awkward....
gettyimages

 

[Melly5525]

Even though runway clearly isnt her strong suit I still think she looked awesome at Burberry, i really like her look its a little quirky and offbeat but she looks really cool and rock in the clothes.

 

[Paws]

Her walk was soooo awkward and ungainly at Burberry that it was uncomfortable just to watch. I really want to see what the fall looked like; Burberry cut it out of their videos!

Someone has posted a video clip of it on the runway mishap thread (Post 169)

http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f96/runway-mishaps-3-a-106913-12.html

 

[marie199]

poor thing. Her fall was quite terrible. I hope that her bad walk was just because of the shoes... or she may possible have the worst walk ever.

 

[Exclusive]

At least she made an impression ??

 

[Fantomette]

^
I just want to give her a hug after seeing the Burberry show video.
A bad walker can improve if she's given the chance to but this terrible walk/fall could dissuade some people from booking her. I hope it won't affect her career.

 

[Paws]

^Hopefully not.
Remember Jac fell her first season at the Hermes show - it didn't hurt her any.

 

[Fantomette]

^ Jac felt at Herve Leger but it wasn't as bad and besides that her walk was very good (imo).
Anyway I'm sure things will be good for Nina. B)

 

[Gábor]

Burberry Prorsum S/S 11 London (C)

vogue.it

 

[Paws]

^ Jac felt at Herve Leger but it wasn't as bad and besides that her walk was very good (imo).
Anyway I'm sure things will be good for Nina. B)

You are right - I didn't remember right.
And yes, I do think that Jac is in a different status than Nina but hopefully this will work out for her.
Like someone said before, so many more people know her name now

 

[golly]

i think it will be part of her charm - and her history!

 

[inwhiterooms]

She looks great in that last backstage shot for Burberry

 

[Frida]

Teenage modelling sensation suffers a 'Naomi moment' as she makes her catwalk debut in front of the world's media

By Tamara Abraham

As one of the stars of Burberry's high-profile advertising campaigns, Nina Porter has been tipped as the modelling world's next big thing.
But the 16-year-old, who walked the catwalk for the first time at the label's London Fashion Week show yesterday, attracted attention for all the wrong reasons after she stumbled and fell in the middle of the runway.
The schoolgirl, whose trip was reminiscent of Naomi Campbell's famous fall in 1994 during a Vivienne Westwood show in Paris, modelled three looks from next season's spring/summer 2011 collection.

She was chosen to close the show - a coup for any model, let alone a fledgling one - but the towering platform heels proved too much of a challenge on the highly-polished catwalk, and she fell to her knees in front of Topshop owner Sir Philip Green and his daughter Chloe, who were sitting in the front row.
Guests at the show, which also counted Sarah Jessica Parker, tennis players Serena Williams and Andy Murray and presenters Cat Deeley, Donna Air and Alexa Chung, sympathised with the model.
Indeed Parker's Sex and the City character, Carrie Bradshaw, also had a catwalk fall in one episode.

A witness said: 'She modelled three outfits, and each time she came out I thought, "Don’t fall" because she couldn’t walk in the shoes. Her final outfit closed the show, so all eyes were on her.

'Two other girls tripped, but they didn’t fall. One got a cheer when she took her shoes off. The clothes were amazing but the show felt unpracticed.'

But Porter, who joins Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Lily Donaldson in the current Burberry campaign, was not the only model to struggle with footwear in this month's fashion shows.
In what appears to be proof that challenging footwear is here to stay, supermodel Alek Wek fell during the Z Spokes by Zac Posen show, while another girl fell during the Betty Jackson show on Saturday.

And that's nothing compared to the Prada show two years ago when one girl after another slipped and fell following a last-minuted decision to have the models wear pop socks with their platform heels, leaving them with no grip.

Porter, who describes modelling as a 'hobby on the side', has just been awarded six A* and five A grades in her GCSEs,and is currently studying for her A-levels in art, photography and textiles.
Her father, Neil Porter, is one half of landscape architects Gustafson Porter, responsible for the memorial fountain to Princess Diana in Hyde Park.
She told the Evening Standard that she was hoping to study fashion design at university. 'Modelling is really good because it helps me to understand the fashion industry,' she said.

'My parents, who have been really supportive, pointed out that modelling would be a good way to meet people who have done what I would like to do.' Porter was spotted by a scout from Select model agency at the Clothes Show two years ago. Since then, she has appeared in a campaign for Miu Miu as well as both British and US Vogue.

She has been hailed as 'the new Emma Watson', after the Harry Potter star, who featured in a highly successful campaign for Burberry last year.
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