Free Spirit
Like many high achievers, Camilla Franks likes to do things differently. Originally a performer travelling the mass of her native Australia with a co-operative theatre group, it was then she discovered her knack for fashion design, rather than your conventional art college.
“I would drive my friends crazy on a Saturday night,” she laughs loudly, when we meet for a coffee in central London, where she is staying for a few weeks. “They would have to endure three-and-a-half hours of Shakespeare – with no intervals – when they’d watch my plays,” she continues to laugh.
It was when preparing for these performances that Camilla found herself developing her characters through costume. “Every year they became more and more flamboyant, to the point that no-one paid attention to the acting any more – and the label was born,” she smiles. “That was 15 years ago and, if
