43 Quotes by Karen Walker

There are a lot of things about my career now that are as I imagined, hoped for and worked towards.

I 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.

We are so excited for what's next. I think that's what I love most about it, the energy and the excitement that comes from that.

Virtually the second I get home, I change into my "home" clothes - yoga pants and a T-shirt.

I'm a gastronome first and foremost. I have several bookshelves in my home full of cookbooks, foodie magazines and food writer books and I am always on the hunt for a great recipe or local foodie haunt to try.

We spotted Beyoncé, January Jones, Rihanna and Carey Mulligan wearing the label [Karen Walker]. I was ecstatic, but I'm just as thrilled to see interesting girls wearing our product everywhere. It's quite a buzz.

I 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.

Always take one last look in a full-length mirror before leaving the house.

Always half an hour a day where it's just me and my yoga mat.