Karen Walker – Fashion Designer & Label

Although Karen Walker is a Kiwi, we thought it would be nice to feature her on fashionreview.com.au. We figured that there isn’t any website promoting the success of New Zealand in the fashion world, so featuring her on an Australian fashion website is the closest she’s going to get !

 

For those of you who don’t know, Karen Walker is undoubtedly New Zealands most influential and successful fashion designers in the current era. Her self-titled boutique label has achieved international success for unpretentious and original styles.

Karen Walker is featured in over 250 stores worldwide, including Tokyo, Sydney, LA, Hong Kong, London, New Zealand, Taipai and New York. Karen Walker fashion collections include clothing, eyewear (sunglasses), and jewellery. Karen Walker paints are also exclusively available through Resene paint stores in Australia and New Zealand.

To give you an idea of the success of this label, Phaidon have included her in their recent book Sample, which curates the top 100 influential designers to emerge in the past six years. Most recently, she was awarded the 2007 Priz de Marie Claire for the best creative talent.

So I guess your wondering what all the hype is about?? Karen Walker is a label which effortlessly combines high-class with casual, feminine with masculine, luxury with non-luxury, and style with style. We could literally blab on about the various awards the label has received, but in reality in is easier to simply look at her collections. Karen Walker has a unique ability to target many markets, yet still maintain an air of exclusivity.

Celibirities from Bjork to Drew Barrymore to Claudia Schiffer have famously favoured Karen Walker’s work. And just for the record, Karen still lives in New Zealand with her husband, daughter, her two cats and a dog.

Check out the latest from Karen Walker here!

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