CAMILLA STAERK, DESIGNER PROFILE

The Danish-born, London-trained talent behind hip label Staerk, Camilla Staerk is an edgy designer, known for her garment texture and fabrics (especially her use of leather). The designer says that she draws on the fluid lines of Danish Modern design and the haunted fog brooding over Prince Hamlet’s Elsinore Castle for inspiration for her unique and personal vision of dress.

Trained in London, Staerk’s graduate fashion show at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication caught the eye of both the international press and buyers at the boutiques Browns Focus and Maria Luisa. She went on to be awarded Topshop’s New Generation Award three times, and she was dubbed “a future fashion star,” by British Vogue.

Darkly romantic in mood, Staerk’s designs caught the eye of model and photographer Helena Christensen who stocked the designer’s wears in her boutique, Butik, hosted Staerk’s debut presentation in New York at the store, and threw a Fashion Week party for the designer to celebrate her first catwalk show in the city.