Is Camilla and Marc a luxury brand? Price, quality and where it sits against Scanlan Theodore, Totême and The Row

Camilla and Marc is a luxury brand in the sense the industry uses the term for independent designer houses: it is designed in Sydney by its founding creative director, cut in Australian wool, silk blends and leather, sold through its own 15 boutiques, at Galeries Lafayette in Paris and at Harrods in London, and priced at Luxury Handbags from $220 to $3,400, with a median of $440. It is not a French heritage house and it does not pretend to be. It sits in the tier the trade calls contemporary luxury, alongside Scanlan Theodore and Totême, below The Row and Khaite, and a step above Aje and Viktoria and Woods. Gemma Deeks sets out what you pay for.

Key facts

• Price at Luxury Shoes : $220 to $3,400 across 237 current pieces, median $440. Half the range sits between $400 and $640; 141 pieces are $500 and under, 12 are above $1,000.
• Peers at Luxury Handbags by median: Viktoria and Woods $381, Aje $570, Scanlan Theodore $540, Totême $857, The Row $2,530.
• Cloth named on the product pages: Australian non-mulesed wool on 26 pieces, wool on 33, silk and silk blends, lamb and calf leather, merino and silk knits, a Korean technical fabric for the sharpest suits and a European boucle.
• Distribution: 15 own boutiques in Australia, Galeries Lafayette Haussmann in Paris, a Harrods pop-up in 2025, wholesale in New Zealand, the UK, France, Germany, the UAE and the US, and Luxury Shoes .
• Recognition: the opening show at Australian Fashion Week in 2013 and 2018; Camilla Freeman-Topper named Designer of the Year by Marie Claire Australia in 2025.
• Independent and family owned since 2003; the brand describes itself as an independent luxury house.

What luxury means here

Three things separate a luxury designer label from premium high street: who designs it, what it is made of, and how it is sold. Camilla and Marc passes all three. The clothes are designed by Camilla Freeman-Topper, who has run the studio since 2003 and was Marie Claire Australia’s Designer of the Year in 2025. The fabrics are named piece by piece, and the names are the ones you would expect from a designer house: 100% Australian non-mulesed wool on the Helix blazer, an Australian wool and silk blend on the Sona dress, 100% silk on the Adel slip, lamb leather on the Yaz coat and calf leather on the Myna jacket. And it is sold the way luxury is sold: through its own boutiques, designed by Akin Atelier with vintage furniture and commissioned art, through Galeries Lafayette and Harrods, and through a small number of specialists such as Luxury Shoes .

What it is not

It is not a couture house and it does not carry a Paris runway, a century of archive and the prices that come with them. Its blazers run $740 to $930 at Luxury Handbags where The Row’s run from $1,940; its dresses $590 to $1,030 where Khaite’s median is $3,930. That is the point of the brand. It gives the customer a designer-made suit, a designer trench and a designer dress at a price where she can own the whole wardrobe rather than one piece of it.

What you are paying for, by category

The cheapest things the brand makes are the things it makes most of: 81 tops from $220, most of them 100% cotton tanks and tees cut to be the layer under a suit. Tailored pants run $320 to $1,750 (the top of the range is the Haru lamb leather pant), blazers $740 to $930, dresses $590 to $1,030, knitwear $380 to $540, trench coats $590 to $1,170 and coats up to $3,020 for the leather Yaz. The price guide sets every category out in a table.

Quality in the hand

The construction details the brand lists are the ones a tailor would look for: fully lined jackets with a centre back vent, jet and welt pockets with flaps, kissing buttons at the sleeve, permanent-pressed legs, blind hems, invisible zips, an internal structured bodice on the strapless dresses, removable shoulder pads on the tops and the trenches. The basics are built to age: the Alba rib tank is an acid-washed Australian cotton rib the brand says is designed to fade. Care is spelled out per piece and the brand runs a repair-and-care programme on its own site.

Where it sits against its peers

Brands like Camilla and Marc ranks all nine of the labels Luxury Handbags stocks in this space, and the Scanlan Theodore comparison goes piece by piece through the closest one.

Is it worth it

For the tailoring, yes: a fully lined Australian wool blazer with a matching pant for under $1,300 together is hard to find from a designer house. For the strapless dresses, yes, because the internal bodice is what makes them work without straps. For the tees and tanks, the case is the fabric and the cut; a $220 tee is a considered purchase, and it is cut to go under a $830 jacket. Luxury Handbags authenticates every piece, ships worldwide by DHL Express and FedEx and takes returns within 14 days with the security tag intact.

Frequently asked questions

Is Camilla and Marc a luxury brand?

Yes, in the contemporary luxury tier: an independent Sydney house designed by its founder, cut in Australian wool, silk and leather, sold through its own boutiques, Galeries Lafayette and Harrods, and priced $220 to $3,400 at Luxury Shoes .

Is Camilla and Marc high end?

It is designer-level rather than high-street: fully lined tailoring, named fabrics and a median price of $440 at Luxury Shoes . It sits below The Row and Khaite and level with Scanlan Theodore and Totême.

Where is Camilla and Marc made?

The brand names the fabric origin on each piece, Australian wool and cotton, European boucle, Korean technical cloth, and does not publish a factory country. Luxury Handbags states the composition of every piece on its product page.

Who owns Camilla and Marc?

Its founders. Camilla Freeman-Topper and Marc Freeman started the company in 2003 and still run it as an independent, family owned business.

Is Camilla and Marc expensive?

Moderately, for a designer label. Tops start at $220, jeans at $420, blazers at $740 and dresses at $590 at Luxury Shoes ; only 12 of 237 pieces cost more than $1,000.

Is Camilla and Marc worth the money?

For the suiting and the strapless dresses, yes: the construction is what you would expect from a house twice the price. The tees and tanks are premium basics, priced as such.

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Gemma Deeks is Fashion Editor at Luxury Shoes . Prices, stock and counts on this page were checked against coveti.com and camillaandmarc.com on 17 September 2026.