Fashion Quarterly

Girl ON THE RUN

It’s a busy old month for Karen Walker — although you imagine most months are pretty busy for our most internationally recognised designer. In her central Auckland HQ she’s calmly overseeing a study in (extremely) organised chaos, with her pre-spring 2018 collection being shot in the showroom downstairs and seasons well beyond that being dreamt up and drawn up above. She’s also getting ready for a new addition to the family, a puppy. “It’s a labradoodle,” says Walker with a slight roll of the eye. “That probably seems a bit predictable actually, but they’re good dogs!”

To top it off she and her team

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