By Elli Stuhler
Image via Styleite
For me, watching a model stumble on the runway provides the ultimate satisfaction, something I presume my shrink – if I had one- would refer to as schadenfreude. But who doesn’t find some joy in watching gorgeous skinny girls fall over their own endless limbs, bringing to mind imagery of little baby deer who just aren’t yet fit to walk the yonder forests?

Burberry’s SS 2011 show gave me that satisfaction, plus a little something to gossip about. According to tweets, three models lost their footing and one actually fell at Tuesday’s show at London Fashion Week. I actually saw the fall, because I livestreamed the second half of the show from my kitchen. My invite, I presume, got lost in the mail.

But four stumbles? Even for a killjoy like myself that seems a little steep, so here’s a theory. While Burberry usually brings to mind British WAGS in their plaid trench coats, this season creative director Christopher Bailey alluded more to the street punks on the opposite tier of British society. The garden party pastels of yore were there, but embellished with a leather harness detailing. Trenches were covered in studs, but it was really more about leather jackets. Spiky ones at that. So naturally, it’s hardly fair to put a waify 17-year-old in a jacket that’s 75 per cent metal, on a slippery floor in giant heels and expect them not to keel over. They simply haven’t the strength for such heavy lifting. It’s enough to make this livestreamer want to fly to London, stroke the models’ hair and tell them everything’s going to be all right. While feeding them double cheeseburgers, no doubt.