January 26, 2006 KAREN WALKER by Kenny Campbell Showing at Royal Academy of Arts as part of On | Off, this will be her 3rd on-schedule London show. Living and working in New Zealand, she is fascinated by the outsider, who she continues to celebrate with each collection, while taking extremes such as very masculine and very feminine, ugly and beautiful, and pushing them together. Her signature style is to take traditionally luxurious ingredients or styles, and bring them down to street level while simultaneously taking the traditionally casual and elevating it. KAREN WALKER features in British Vogue’s ‘Class of 2006’ February 2006 issue out now. KAREN WALKER