Sacrifice featuring Karen Walker
Today's designers are creating garments that provoke us to compare current fashion with that of WWII. Do our reasons for fighting against the Axis Powers compare to our reasons for engaging in combat in Iraq? Consequently, are the sacrifices willing to be made then comparable to those we are willing to make now? more...
New York Fashion Week Spring 2008 :: Karen Walker featuring Karen Walker
Determined to create pieces for people who want to stand out as individuals, her Spring 2008 collection made some bold maneuvers including a day suit that seemed to be cut from vertical-striped silk pajamas and comfy silk boxers turned to outerwear. [Xenia Viray] more...
The Shadowlands featuring Karen Walker
Fashion seems to be a shadow itself, negotiating a culture's former image with its future image, with barely a moment in which the two are reconciled. In 'Night is but a Shadow Cast by the Sun' Wright wrote, 'The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.' Through examining the fluid nature of our identities, we find that infinite ideas and forward change become possible more...
New York Fashion Week Fall 2007:: Karen Walker featuring Karen Walker
Walker drew much from the military uniforms of the 40's. The feeling of this collection emulated a country at war, which still has its collective head firmly engaged in pop-culture. I loved the lucidity and I loved the style. [Celine Griscom] more...
New York Fashion Week Spring 2007 :: Karen Walker featuring Karen Walker
Walker designs for a person who likes to garden, read, and perhaps do a little graphic design or silkscreening on the side. Walker is a creative person who acts as a magnet for creative clientele. Cardigans tucked in to paper bag pants, saddle shoes, knit shorts and trousers. This is what the Karen Walker girls wears because she's a painter, because she eats a grape in the grocery store while she's browsing, because she is more concerned with her own self-expression and comfort than the possibility of being the object of the voyeuristic world. [Xenia Viray] more...