Walker Talks Trends

In a bid to understand the fashion industry’s “pandemic schizophrenia,” SMH picks the brain of Kiwi style guru, Karen Walker. “It’s all about zig-zagging. If it was white last season, it’ll be black this season. All a designer is, in any discipline, is somebody who gets bored quickly […] The younger, cooler, more underground designers have much more influence than people think … [they] are basically unpaid designers for a lot of the bigger companies.” Walker could be talking about herself: a buyer from Tommy Hilfiger recently bought $12,000 worth of her designs in one swoop from Browns in London.