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"   Photo: Getty Images  The front-row at yesterday afternoon&amp;#039;s Karen Walker show was what style photographer dreams are made of: the slew of it-girls, all of whom double as DJs, included Ilirjana Alushaj, Becka Diamond, Cory Kennedy, and Chelsea Leyland. And in the middle of them all sat Natalia Kills, Interscope&amp;#039;s hot new artist, absolutely killing it in a Christopher Kane dress paired with Karen Walker shades. It&amp;#039;s those shades that have turned Walker into a household name (New York&amp;#039;s households, at least). &amp;quot;When we first started doing the sunglasses, the rule we said to ourselves was `Nothing commercial,&amp;#039;&amp;quot; the designer told us backstage after the show, her 20th stateside. &amp;quot;We didn&amp;#039;t want to do `Oh, here&amp;#039;s the two press pieces and here&amp;#039;s the rest that are just dull.&amp;#039; I think that&amp;#039;s how a lot of eye-brands are. But for us, we said, `If there&amp;#039;s twenty pieces in a collection, every piece has to be `Wow!&amp;#039; And hopefully that&amp;#039;s what we achieve. But something&amp;#039;s working, because they&amp;#039;re popular!&amp;quot; she laughed.  Still living in Auckland, New Zealand, Walker admits to bringing some elements of her hometown to her work. &amp;quot;I guess what informs our work from where we live is the casual nature of life there. It&amp;#039;s not red carpet. It&amp;#039;s a totally different vibe from Paris or New York; there&amp;#039;s very much a casualness underlying it all. There&amp;#039;s still an awareness of aesthetics and a desire to look good, but it&amp;#039;s kind of always underpinned with a casual undertone. Even when it&amp;#039;s quite formal, it&amp;#039;s still a boot instead of a heel.&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s working for Walker, who described the collection in five words: &amp;quot;Captain Nemo Meets Brian Jones.&amp;quot; Post-show, Kills shyly introduced herself to Walker, confessing that she&amp;#039;s a fan. The compliment went both ways. &amp;quot; I saw your video and I absolutely loved it,&amp;quot; Walker told Kills. &amp;quot;It came on my Google search\u2014I woke up at 6:30 in the morning!&amp;quot; said Walker. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m blushing!&amp;quot; squealed Kills behind her massive Walker glasses. Now we&amp;#039;re not-so-patiently awaiting news of a collaboration... Click here to see all of the fall shows! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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