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Karen Walker

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Karen Walker

Karen Walker lives and works in New Zealand but has an international profile as a fashion designer. Her first runway collection at Hong Kong fashion week gained rave reviews, and her emphasis on tailoring and cut have made her designs popular with celebrities such as Madonna.

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Reference: 26 February 1999

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Kerryn Pollock, Fashion and textile design – Going global, 1990s and 2000s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/3602/karen-walker (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 3 March 2009.