Kat Walker: A wise crack

Gossip, slander, zany products and plain silliness - Kat Walker tells all. Claws in darlings, it's off the record!

Royal snub

Designers will often tell you that free publicity is not easy to come by -especially the kind which generates domestic sales and boosts brand recognition in the local market. So one journalist was left scratching her head when, after receiving rave reviews for a full page profile in a national fashion magazine, a womenswear designer claimed she couldn't recall who interviewed her and suggested the entire story was "probably copied from a press release". While the receipt of press releases occurs on a daily basis, Kat Walker bets this journalist has yet to revert to the cut-and-paste methods once enjoyed in kingergarten.

At the movies

Amid the hoo-ha as to whether mega movie Australia would make it into cinemas on schedule, Kat Walker found herself idly wondering if she'd have to re-think her wardrobe to channel Lady Ashley (or whatever Nicole K's character is called). You know, lots of tailored jackets with covered buttons and mountains of lace and linen, (think Meryl Streep in Out of Africa... without the Botox). Kat Walker hastily dropped the idea but was relieved to find another, far worthier Australia fashion angle. Peter Abbott - the man behind Humanitee clothing - has organised a screening of the film in aid of youth charity The Lighthouse Foundation on November 30 in Melbourne. Kat Walker reckons whatever Nic is wearing, this makes the movie worth a look.

A pants idea?

Some labels just pull all the stops out at Christmas, but there's one T-Shirt company - which will remain nameless for the purpose of this column - that really has taken the fruitcake this year, by branching out into the taste-free zone of Christmas novelty undies. The company, which calls itself "Australia's first major design-online, print-on-demand T-shirt house" describes its er "cheeky" new product as a way to give customers "complete, creative control as to what your backside says about you". Frankly the less my backside says about Kat Walker the better. Gucci knows what it would say if it could speak... "Stop sitting on me." for starters. There just has to be a better way of spreading goodwill than giving Auntie Edna "Spank me" knickers.