Vertical catwalk: model abseils into Oxford Circus

Plunging neckline: Amanda Foster in red miniskirt and stilettos
12 April 2012

As Halle Berry's stunt double, Amanda Foster thinks nothing of performing gravity-defying stunts dressed in a miniskirt and stilettos, so abseiling into Oxford Circus today to promote high street fashion was no bother.

Foster was one of four stunt models to glide face-first down a "vertical catwalk" for the launch of High Street Fashion Week in Oxford Street.

Dressed in specially modified outfits by high street retailers including French Connection, H&M and River Island, the women stunned commuters and stopped traffic as they descended from a fourth-floor window onto Oxford Circus just after 7am attached only by a rope and a harness.

Foster, who is currently working with Berry on her new film Dark Tide and won a world stunt award for her performance in Die Another Day, said she found the experience "exhilarating".

Dressed in a red ruffled River Island dress and stiletto shoes, she said: "Everything has an element of danger in my job. I like doing it because it excites me."

Her three stunt companions, Stephanie Godwin, 27, Annie Poulton, 23, and Violeta Beral, 27, who work at Mile End Climbing Centre as instructors, were all equally unfazed. Godwin, who wore an orange H&M dress, said: "I'm used to doing big action stunt sequences."

Today's event marked the beginning of the second High Street Fashion Week — started last year with a catwalk on the Tube — to coincide with the launch of autumn/winter collections.

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