Karen Walker’s Designs on Marriage Equality
Fashion designer Karen Walker’s latest production is a T-shirt created to support New Zealand’s Campaign for Marriage
Equality.
Karen Walker for equality, photo by Patrick Reynolds, modelled by Fraser Wood of Red
The designer – who has just shown her latest collection at New York Fashion Week – is the latest in a series of
high-profile New Zealanders to throw their support behind the campaign. She created the design with her husband,
creative director Mikhail Gherman.
Proceeds from the sale of the T-shirts, which depict two bears holding hands above the words ‘Karen Walker for
equality’, go to the Campaign for Marriage Equality, a nation-wide coalition of groups working to support the marriage
equality bill currently before Parliament.
“Marriage equality is an issue that’s enormously important to Mikhail and me,” Karen Walker says. “We believe everyone
is entitled to happiness and to being joyful in their commitment. We created a design that captures that joyfulness and
is fun, warm and light-hearted – just like a good wedding should be.”
The T-shirts, which cost $40, are available online at www.rebeccabooks.org. Their production was supported by leading
photographer Patrick Reynolds, who took the publicity images, and model Fraser Wood and his agency Red 11, all of whom
donated their services in support of the campaign.
“We’re very grateful for Karen Walker’s support, and for the light-hearted clarity of her design for the campaign,” says
Cameron Law of the Campaign for Marriage Equality. “Like Karen, the majority of New Zealanders and their MPs support
marriage equality because we’re a fundamentally fair society that has consistently supported progress towards equal
rights for everyone.”