Karen Walker Now Has a New York Show Under Her Belt
“UK Capital’s loss was New York’s gain as she showed a spring collection that was long on the skewed charm that’s her
signature” Tim Blanks STYLE.COM
“The look is sexy with a coolly ambiguous twist, and it’s easy to see why Walker has galvanized a stellar clientele of
young Hollywoodites.”
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“If the show occasionally played like a Karen’s Greatest Brits for people who know about her, it was a smart way to
introduce her work to those who don’t”
NEW YORK, September 9, 2006 – Tim Blanks says on STYLE.COM: After eight seasons in London, well-traveled New Zealander
Karen Walker is ready for new frontiers. The UK capital's loss was New York's gain as she showed a spring collection
that was long on the skewed charm that's her signature. She claimed inspiration from Land Girls (the women who worked
the farms in England while their menfolk were away at the front during World War II) and there were discernible echoes
of the forties in the floral prints, puff sleeves and baggy pants. But Walker's real focus, as always, was on the hybrid
of female and male. It's that fashion cliché about the woman who slips into her boyfriend's clothes in the morning,
except in Walker's capable hands, it feels fresh and slightly subversive.
In this collection, for instance, floral bloomers were worn with a pinstriped waistcoat, an organza dress was topped by
a net T-shirt, and neon nylon parkas added a mod boy element. The look is sexy with a coolly ambiguous twist, and it's
easy to see why Walker has galvanized a stellar clientele of young Hollywoodites. If the show occasionally played like
Karen's Greatest Bits for people who know about her, it was a smart way to introduce her work to those who don't.
ENDS