Designer Tanya Carlson yesterday said the successful fashion label Carlson would not be affected by a Dunedin law firm's application to have a company of hers placed in liquidation over a $4000 debt.
The much-celebrated Carlson label has been around since 1997.
Last month, Dunedin-based Rodgers Law, through Auckland law firm Kirkland Enright, applied to the High Court at Dunedin to have Carlson Ltd placed in liquidation, with a hearing scheduled for next month.
Carlson Ltd is 100% owned by Ms Carlson, who is its sole director.
It was incorporated in October 1997 and remains a registered company with the Companies Office.
Steve Rodgers, from Rodgers Law, said the two-year-old $4000 debt had never been disputed, so it had not been through the small claims court.
The company was simply seeking payment, noting it did not represent Ms Carlson anymore.
"We don't want to put anyone into liquidation; we just want to get paid for work done," he said, when contacted, yesterday.
Ms Carlson said the original bill of $5800 now stood at $4135.
She would be making arrangements to pay the outstanding $4135, "not wanting to go through the liquidation process".
She said other than servicing an existing bank debt, Carlson Ltd no longer traded and the Carlson label worked under TC Ltd, which was incorporated in October 1998.
The Carlson label would therefore "not be affected in any way" by the law firm's claim, she said.
In February 2008, Ms Carlson went to Auckland because of business opportunities and while closing her workroom and dispatch site in George St, has maintained a Carlson retail outlet in Dunedin, plus established outlets in Wellington and in Ponsonby, Auckland.
She said the three outlets "were doing really well".
Ms Carlson grew up in Portobello and went to Queens High School, after which she studied in Sydney before returning to Dunedin in 1991.
She worked at the Verve Clothing outlet in Moray Pl and when that label was sold, she took over its first-floor space and created her own studio and workroom.
The label was then called TC:Works and was custom design and made-to-measure bridal, day and evening wear.
She moved to the George St premises in the mid-1990s.
During the 10th anniversary of the iD Dunedin Fashion Show in March this year, Ms Carlson was among several designers whose retrospective collections, feat- uring garments from the past 10 years, were well received by the audience.
Ms Carlson is still on the iD Dunedin Fashion Show committee.
