Karen Walker's Spring 2011 ready-to-wear showing at
New York Fashion Week on Wednesday was inspired by the amazing photographer
William Eggleston. Eggleston is a genius, and given that his cinematic, colour-film, Mid-West photographic foresight is the range's genesis, it is apt that NZ photographer
Derek Henderson should not only contribute a hydrangea image/motif to the range but that he should also be exhibiting in New York at the same time as Walker's show. All New Zealanders interested in fashion should be proud of Walker's continued official presence at one of the world's biggest fashion weeks. Year after year she fly's the flag for New Zealand creativity and design - and never disappoints. This year's range,
Perfect Day, invokes Eggleston's daring as the first photographer to break out of the black and white haze that had engulfed fine art photography for so many years by embracing bold colours and prints, and celebrating the extremes of daily drudgery and a night on the town somehow at the same moment. Her footwear collaborations; with the talented
Carrie Cooper and with British footwear company
Pointer, saw the models sauntering down the runway in fab
Beau Coops for Karen Walker pumps and rubber-soled creepers respectively. All-in-all a Perfect Day for Karen Walker.
A few of our favourite looks...
