Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?
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It's a lot of pressure. Some of the cast wants a StairMaster on the set so you can work out like crazy before your naked scene.
It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it.
There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.
Walking is pretty easy. You just have to be confident, like not caring. And honestly, people think about their walk too much, so they try to do something really interesting, but the designers hate it.
I am not comfortable walking the ramp for just any designer. I am particular about who I associate with.
I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in my drawings.
On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.
I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.