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Karen Walker (designer)

New Zealand fashion designer

Karen Walker

Walker in

BornDecember&#; (age&#;55)

New Zealand

EducationEpsom Girls' Grammar School
Labels
  • Living with Cannibals and Other Adventures,
  • Dough and Dynamite,
  • Liberal and Miserable,
  • Karen in TV Land, Queenie Was a Dog,
  • Victory Garden,
  • Karen to the Rescue,
  • Young, Willing and Eager[1]

Karen Elizabeth WalkerCNZM (born December ) is a noted New Zealand fashion designer.

Private life

Walker was born in December [2] She grew up in the Auckland suburb of Remuera and attended Epsom Girls' Grammar School.[3] Aged 21, she married Mikhail Gherman.[4]

Career

Walker began her fashion label in , and opened her first store in Newmarket, Auckland, in [5] She began selling to Barneys New York in , the same year she showed her first runway collection.

In late , she signed a partnership with United States-based retail chain Anthropologie.[6]

She has designed clothes worn by Björk, Sienna Miller, Natalie Portman, M.I.A., Alexa Chung, Beth Ditto, Michael Haneke, Liv Tyler, Rihanna, Claire Danes, Zooey Deschanel and Jennifer Lopez.[7][8] She designed clothes worn by Kate Winslet in the Michel Gondry film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.[8]

In the New Year Honours, Walker was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the fashion industry.[9] She was promoted to Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to fashion design, in the New Year Honours.[10] In Walker received a World Class New Zealand Award [11] in the Creative category.

Walker is also an expert on colour for interiors and has partnered with Resene to produce her own line of paint colours.[12]

Walker was appointed to the board of Creative New Zealand in December [13]

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