Candice Swanepoel takes tumble at New York Fashion Week

Victoria's Secret model Candice Swanepoel took a nasty tumble on the runway at the New York Fashion Week. 

She fell to the floor, grazing her arms and knees, while walking in Givenchy's spring/summer 2016 runway show on Friday night, September 11, reported Female First. 

Swanepoel was offered support from audience members in the front row and made a graceful recovery, continuing to walk down the catwalk - despite sporting some cuts on her knees. 

Taking to Instagram after the incident, Swanepoel, 26, said she was physically fine but had suffered a "bruised ego". 

"Thank you to who ever picked me up off the runway tonight. Left with little scratches but mostly a bruised ego #ohwell (sic)" 

Stars in attendance at the show included Kim Kardashian West - whose sister Kendall Jenner also walked for Givenchy - her husband Kanye West, Nicki Minaj and Ciara.

Model down: Why did Candice Swanepoel fall on Givenchy NYFW runway?

Victoria Secret model Candice Swanepoel takes a tumble on runway

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Falling on the runway is a supermodel's biggest fear, but for Victoria Secret model Candice Swanepoel it is now a reality with a few painful reminders according to a Saturday, September 12 report from Us.

Left embarrassed, bloody and bruised Candace still manage to flash a huge grin for concerned onlookers at the Givenchy show at the NYFW on Friday night. Swanepoel's tumble took place in front of dozens of fashion insiders and fans. Quickly to recover, Candice conducted herself in a professional manner after one of her shoes came apart sending Candice to the floor, hard.

Swanepoel, 26, was wearing a black, semi-sheer lace dress and stunning red-and-black fringed booties for the fashion house, for whom she is a spokesperson. Swanepoelback was quickly back on her feet and posting to the social media about her embarrassing tumble. Candice posted, "Thank you to whoever picked me off the runway tonight. Left with a few scratches but mainly a bruised ego." Swanepoel, 26, was wearing a black, semi-sheer lace dress and stunning red-and-black fringed booties for the fashion house, for whom she is a spokesperson.

Come Closer with Candice Swanepoel

I meet Candice Swanepoel on a dreary almost-winter evening in Manhattan, at the downtown studio where she’s wrapping up a shoot for a spring issue of the Victoria’s Secret catalog. I watch the last “look,” for which she perches on a prop bed in the middle of a concrete studio filled with various fluffy-looking items (furry pillows, pastel ottomans, etc.) and models an electric-yellow bra-and-panty set. She rolls into dozens of bed-appropriate poses, one after the next, camera flashing. In action, she’s extraordinary—professional and focused, all business, killing each shot. A dozen people right out of fashion-shoot central casting, all wearing shades of black or gray, stand by watching every move. 

When the shoot ends, Swanepoel changes into civilian clothes (a loose, long-sleeve white-cotton T-shirt, tight blue jeans with gaping holes in the knees, black Nikes) and we chat for a while on a couch nearby. Later that night she is meeting up with other Angels to watch the annual Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show prime-time broadcast on CBS: “We all watch it together and scream,” she says, conjuring an image out of a million male fantasies. “We eat popcorn and laugh at ourselves.”