Living Colour

Camilla Ceo Jane Mcnally Is On A Mission: To Colour The World, One Kaftan At A Time.

- Susan Armstrong

It’s an unseasonally warm winter morning in the inner-city Sydney suburb of Alexandria. I’m sitting in the cool headquarters of luxury fashion label Camilla, watching women float by on a sea of the softest silk splashed with vibrant prints and dotted with shimmering crystals. In every corner of this quite remarkable warehouse, with its exposed brickwork and sky-high ceilings, I spy exotic artefacts and antiques – a two-metre urn, an arched wooden swing, pillars with intricate detailing – and colourful swatches of fabric, here, there, everywhere. Have I been instantly transported to some exotic location – Tibet, India, Mexico, Morocco... wait, am I at Coachella? No, I’m just observing the Camilla Tribe in their natural habitat and let me tell you, it’s quite something to behold.

Enter Tribal Chief, aka CEO, Jane McNally, who embodies everything the brand stands for: vitality, strength, beauty, femininity and optimism. She’s softly spoken and quietly confident, and clearly loves and lives the brand she leads. “Camilla is a true fashion disrupter,” she explains. “Our designs allow women to express their femininity and individualism. Our colours and prints are designed to enrich our customers’ lives – and their feedback says that they genuinely do make them feel brighter, happier and more optimistic.”