Indigo Clarke reports on the Karen Walker show
Karen Walker is for the anti-fashion fashion girl who embraces a magpie mix of vintage, high-street and designer, and this is what Walker successfully delivered in droves. Textures, colours and prints were mixed and mashed up throughout a pretty and playful spring-like collection.
With a front row consisting of dolly-bird it-girls including Tennessee Thomas and Sarah Sophie Flicker, Karen Walker’s sixties slash nineties cutie-pie Autumn/Winter 13 collection of wearable whims went off with a bang. More Topshop than Thakoon, Karen Walker is for the anti-fashion fashion girl who embraces a magpie mix of vintage, high-street and designer, and this is what Walker successfully delivered in droves. Textures, colours and prints were mixed and mashed up throughout a pretty and playful spring-like collection – black and white check wool with fluoro and cotton florals with slouchy knit some of the standout looks. Models donned bold bug and cat-eye Karen Walker eyewear (an accessories line that has gone on to make the New Zealand designer something of a house-hold name), point-toed platform ankle boots, chunky knit beanies, scarves and sweaters with biker jackets atop floral skirts and dresses – a kick-about grungy feel that worked to toughen up Walker’s super-sweet aesthetic.
