Discover the full Karen Walker collection at Ballantynes, your destination for New Zealand's most celebrated designer label. Founded in Auckland in 1989 by Karen Walker, who started with NZ$100 and two T-shirts at age 18, the brand has grown into an internationally recognised fashion and lifestyle label stocked in over 1,000 stores worldwide including Nordstrom and Bloomingdales, and consistently ranked in the BoF 500 list of the most influential people in global fashion. Known for a signature aesthetic that juxtaposes luxe and street, masculine and feminine, directional and wearable, Karen Walker is the brand for the most interesting person in the room, worn by Rihanna, Lorde, Alexa Chung, Meghan Markle, Michelle Obama and Lady Gaga.