Karen Walker

Karen Walker is a fashion designer with a reputation for an unpretentious style and an easy fit and feel. She is known for her original fabric that her husband, Mikhail Gherman now creates for her. Her first runway collection was in 1998. By this time she had three stores in New Zealand and she began selling her designs in Barneys New York.

She and her family live in New Zealand where she has designed her collections for the past 10 years for Fashion Week. Karen has started several collections, including a retro sunglasses line, a new jewelry line and her own mens line.http://wapedia.mobi/en/Karen_Walker_(designer)

Kate Hudson, Jennifer Lopez and Kelly Osborn are some of the many celebrities that seem to love to wear her work.http://wapedia.mobi/en/Karen_Walker_(designer)

Karen Walker Left Epsom Girls Grammar School early in 1988 and entered into Fashion training. She started designing with only about $80.00 start up money with which she bought fabric and began designing shirts. She created her own line while in her second year of fashion school.http://wapedia.mobi/en/Karen_Walker_(designer)

Working toward her career goal she was able to bring her products to the public in 1998. She is married to Mikhail Gherman and has one child named Valentina. Her life in New Zealand seems to provide the inspiration for the wildly popular colors and patterns of her design. Also known as an impressive speaker which has been known to motivate young women, she has been engaged to speak at events such as Idea Fest proving to the audience that she was as talented in motivational speaking as she was in Design.http://evgenymorozov.com/blog/?p=30