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Karen Walker is a fashion brand with a reputation for its original, effortless and unpretentious style.  Karen Walker shows each season as part of New York Fashion Week and has permanent showrooms in London, New York, Tokyo and Sydney.  Since 2002 Karen Walker has been working closely with stylist HeatherMary Jackson on all collections.  BoutiqueLaFleur is very proud to be offering the Karen Walker collection beginning in the fall of 2010.  Karen Walker collections are high casual with one foot in tailoring and the other in street wear.  The reoccuring theme is taking extremes and pushing them together - masculine and feminine, tailored and street, luxury and non luxury, dark and super-cute. Overall the label has a feeling of effortlessness and has been described by the U.K.‘s Independent newspaper as being “the kind of look that provides a means of appearing cool but not trying-too-hard, cute but not saccharine, alter native but not self consciously so. The fact that these clothes appear to be so totally not ‘fashion’ is what makes them so now”.

The collections all have the outsider as their inspiration. Karen Walker’s work celebrates the anti-"it girl" - characters like Ally Sheedy's heavy fringed weirdo in 'The Breakfast Club’, orphan Annie, the juvenile delinquent prom queen who climbs out the window after curfew to run with the bad crowd, Woody Allen’s persistently dissatisfied Annie Hall, an Amelia Earhart inspired adventuress who, after crash landing in the jungle, turns her back on civilization in preference of tribal life or 1930s comic book super heroines leading double lives.  Phaidon have included them in their recent book ‘Sample’ which curates the 100 most influential designers to emerge in the last 6 years and Taschen have also included them in their recent book ‘Fashion Now 2′ which highlights the world’s most important 160 designers as selected by i-D magazine.

Karen Walker was awarded the 2007 Prix de Marie Claire award for best creative talent.  Karen Walker is stocked in over 350 stores throughout the world in cities including New York, London, Los Angeles, Sydney and Tokyo. There are also three Karen Walker flagship stores in New Zealand and one flag ship store in Taipei.  She is also part of the group behind The Department Store in Auckland. The Department Store is a modern take on the traditional department store and includes a Karen Walker boutique alongside the best of Auckland’s beauty, art, interior, fashion and food. It’s a 360 degree shopping experience that stretches across three floors.

Celebrities such as Björk, Sienna Miller, Alexa Chung, Beth Ditto, Jennifer Lopez, Claire Danes, Cate Blanchett, Liv Tyler, Mandi Moore, Shirley Manson, Kate Hudson, Claudia Schiffer, Drew Barrymore and Madonna all favour her work with four pieces from the ‘Dust’ collection featuring on Kate Winslet in Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman’s legendary ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’.  Karen lives in New Zealand with her husband Mikhail and her daughter Valentina.