Photos: Models Fall Through Fashion Week. Dangerous Job?

Dennis Basso's show this week, a model took a major tumble. (Photo by: AP/GettyAt)

In 2009, at least four models fell dramatically during a Herve Leger show. (Photo by:Scott Gries/Getty Images for IMG)

Strappy platforms don't hold up during London's fashion week. (Photo by: Alastair Grant/AP)

Front row spectator Diddy broke the fourth wall when he lent a hand to Karen Elson at Zac Posen's show. (Photo by: Karl Walter/Getty Images for IMG)

A rogue heel gets the best of a model at Z-Spoke's 2010 runway. (Photo by: Jason Decrow/AP)

Despite repeated tumbles, none of the models pictured have reported any injuries. (Photo by:Mark Mainz/Getty Images)

During a Vivienne Westwood retrospective, a platform wedge stole the designer's thunder. (Photo by: Tomas Hudcovic/isifa/Getty Images)

A model at China's fashion week gets a rare helping hand. (Photo by: Feng Li/Getty Images)

A model winces in pain after a serious fall on the runway. (Photo by: AP)

Another model in platforms plummets at Leger's show. (Photo by: Scott Gries/Getty Images for IMG)

At last week's Heart Truth celebrity runway show, veteran Christie Brinkley stepped on her gown...(Photo by: Reuters)

...Then actress Rose McGowan lost her footing as the crowd gasped. (Photo by: Reuters)

Supermodel Agyness Deyn's dramatic plunge at a benefit for Haiti made front page headlines. (Photo by: (Photo by Frazer Harrison/FFR/Getty Images for FFR) By Piper Weiss, Shine Staff | Fashion It's been a bad seven days for a handful of models at New York Fashion Week. At least six designer shows were overshadowed by slips, trips and spills on the catwalk. Naeem Khan, Richard Chai and Y-3 and all featured surprise mis-steps. But the biggest falls caught on film, were on Dennis Basso's runway and at Heart Truth's Red Dress Collection celebrity show, where both Christie Brinkley and Rose McGowan lost their footing. The rule of the thumb is to pick yourself up, laugh it off and cry later, but some models have started avoiding the risk altogether. A few years back, three women turned down the chance to walk in GaGa's Armadillo platforms at an Alexander McQueen show. The likelihood of tumbling in those oddly shapped 10-inch heels wasn't worth the risk to model Abbey Ley Kershaw. "Hopefully [heel height] is going to come back down soon because health and safety regulations have got to come into play at some point," she said back in 2009. But, in the past three years not much has changed. The ability to walk an invisible tightrope in draping fabric and foot stilts is still a requirement of the job. Inevitably slips happen, though some runway shows are perennial disaster areas. "I can tell you I've seen models fall mostly at Herve Leger," says Fashionista's Executive Editor Leah Chernikoff. "The dresses are so tight and the floors are so slippery, it's model dominos." In 2009, the brains behind the band-aid dresses, came under scrutiny after four models fell down in one show; however none of the models reported serious injuries. Conspiracy theorists wonder if some designers aim for a tumble. It's those candid moments captured on camera that grab attention from news outlets and get replayed in the greatest hits version of each season's fashion week. On the flip-side, it doesn't speak well for a look, when a trained professional can't wear it for twenty seconds with out falling.