I always think of it you know building a business, building a brand, a friend of mine gave me a metaphor for it which I think is really true it's like building coral, you don't see it happening it's just little little little and when you step back you think wow.
Karen WalkerI only feel the pressure when we are coming up against a deadline and it's like, actually no we really have to nail this in a week!
Karen WalkerI don't know if I'm all that famous. When I first started my idea of what a career in fashion would look like is very different to the reality now.
Karen WalkerI loved the idea that people dressed up to go to the gardens. Our work always has a utility point of view at its heartbeat and then other things come around it, so it really allowed us to use denims and suedes and gauzes, and those sorts of hard-working fabrics - workwear fabrics - and then contrast them with crepe de chine, beautiful florals and big jewelry.
Karen Walker