Anthropologie Says 'Hi There' to Karen Walker

Karen Walker's line for the spring 2012 season, Hi There, is also the latest designer-and-store collaboration in fashion news. Hi There will be exclusively sold in Anthropologie stores around the US by March (that's less than two months away!). Stars like Florence Welch and Natalie Portman are fans of the New Zealand native's smart and girlish dresses and quirky sunglasses. Hi There is a more affordable version of Walker's usual high-end designs.

According to currency conversions from Karen Walker's New Zealand website, the full price of a dress from her original line costs around $487. Luckily, it looks like a dress from this collection will be closer within the price range of $100 to $150. Hi There is a playful season of printed dresses, full skirts, and stripes galore. The lookbook is retro-inspired: Models pair the modest necklines with preppy white socks and oxfords. Their pin-up girl hairstyles remind us of a vintage Coca-Cola ad.

Text: Emily Thomas
Source/image: KarenWalker.com

Gaze Into The Future: Karen Walker's Futuristic Specs

Take your eye-wear to the next level with the latest from Karen Walker. Sleek, funky, and ultra futuristic are the sunnies from her latest lookbook. Styles range from goggle inspired frames to over-sized circles (pictured above). Yet, what really makes the lookbook and the glasses so fantastic to oogle over are the models. The mannequins from outer space -with their impossibly slick, white hair and wax-like complexions-are the perfect blank canvas for allowing the eccentric shades to really pop!

So whether you're searching for the perfect pair of lucite shades (HUGE trend this season) or you're looking to become the third member of Daft Punk...Karen Walker's collection definitely will have something for you!

Text Lauryn Stone

Source(s): Karen Walker

Fall 2011 Collections That You’d Want To Wear: Part I

There are those collections that you admire on other people (i.e. models in editorials) and there are those that you actually want on your back. The following collections give you the latter, with clothes that are wearable yet new and forward enough to satisfy a fashionista at heart.

NAHM (pictured above) – Ally Hilfiger (yes, that Hilfiger) and Nary Manivong collaborated to present their first collection that reinvents the shirt dress. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” the collection definitely has a certain dark and macabre feeling about it, destabilizing the concept of the simple staple and distorting it through asymmetrical hemlines and the use of unexpected black and clay-hued textured fabrics. With the duo’s successful inventiveness, the shirt dress will surely be “nevermore” boring again. Click to see more after the jump!

Source: Style.com
Text Kristina Bravo

Dracula ... Again.

Most of us have read Twilight or have seen the various television shows that are a dime-a-dozen these days ... America, even the entire world, is ob-sessed with vampires! Yeah, yeah, we know the story - once you have gotten bit, you enter this extremely romanticized world of eternal life and beauty; that story's been around for centuries ... and it's showing NO signs of stopping! But nothing says living forever like sunglasses, right?

Designer Karen Walker, known to be somewhat of an extremist, is participating in a lookbook dedicated to the glorified creatures of the night; she literally is breaking out all of the stops - or in this case, fangs - for her Spring 2009 eyewear collection.

What's the lookbook's working title? Celebrate Sun. And I thought I've heard it all...