Walker’s Goes AWOL

Nylon magazine is all praise for Karen Walker’s gender-bending Runaway collection, calling it “a perfect blend of daddy’s old fishing jackets and backless chiffon mini-dresses.” Based in Auckland, Walker attributes her edgy designs to her isolation from the fashion world’s major centres: “I think that not being in the fashion scene all the time and not getting hooked up on it too much is actually quite liberating.”