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Camilla Stærk

Biography

Think of Denmark, and the mind likely conjures two contradictory images at once: The clean lines of Danish Modern design, and the haunted fog brooding over Elsinore Castle. Denmark native Camilla Stærk interweaves these legacies in her work as a fashion designer, drawing on the dark and the sleek for a deeply personal vision of dress that has earned worldwide acclaim.

Trained in London, Stærk found success fast: Her 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 in London and Maria Luisa in Paris. British Vogue called Stærk a "future fashion star", and she went on to be awarded Top Shop's New Generation Award three times and to nab rave notices for her work in publications such as W, Vogue, and Elle.

Since relocating to New York four seasons ago, Stærk has plumbed inspiration from her new home in America, paying homage to the heroines of "Twin Peaks" in her Spring ´08 show, and to Louise Nevelson in the Fall ´08 "Bride of the Black Moon" collection. This season, with "The Storyteller", Camilla Stærk comes full circle, back to her Danish roots and the work of longtime muse Karen Blixen, aka Isak Dinesen. The Spring ´09 collection conflates the two epochs of Blixen's life - her Danish period and her African one, into a seamless saga of moving prints, deviously worked leather and jersey, and modernized, 1930s-influenced silhouettes.

Another homecoming, of sorts: In August, Camilla Stærk opened the first-ever freestanding Stærk store in Nolita. Retailing the complete Stærk collections, as well as exclusive and limited edition product, the Stærk flagship was designed by Camilla Stærk herself, in collaboration with Erik Johnson of Argosy Designs, and is a place of polished warmth and low-lit Scandinavian sleekness. The unique Stærk point-of-view now has a real-world address - and, with the launch of an e-commerce website at staerk.com, an address in the virtual world, too.


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