Monday, September 19, 2011

Backstage Karen Walker Spring 2012, New York Fashion Week


It warms the cockles of our Black fashion hearts to see New Zealand designer Karen Walker’s continued appearance, season after season, on schedule at Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week. Inspired by Taxi Driver, that most New York of movies, the collection bookends Betsy and Iris from the film as two different types of women that inform the range: “Betsy is feminine, elegant and aloof; Iris is tough and girlish” Walker told Maya Singer on Style.com. Black photographer Adam ‘Instant’ Custins captured some lovely backstage portraits on the day for inclusion in Black #15 but in the meantime here is a backstage teaser to celebrate...








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