Who is Camilla and Marc? The Sydney tailoring house of Camilla Freeman-Topper and Marc Freeman, explained

Camilla and Marc is a Sydney fashion house founded in 2003 by a brother and sister, Camilla Freeman-Topper and Marc Freeman. She trained in fashion design in Sydney and Florence and is the creative director; he trained in engineering and commerce and is the chief executive. The label showed its first collection at Australian Fashion Week in 2003, opened its first boutique in Paddington in 2009 and now runs 15 stores across Australia, a space at Galeries Lafayette Haussmann in Paris and a wholesale business in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. Luxury Handbags carries 237 pieces from its current collections, from $220 to $3,400, every one authenticated before it ships.

Key facts

• Founded in Sydney in 2003 by siblings Camilla Freeman-Topper (creative director, born 1981) and Marc Freeman (chief executive, born 1979). It remains independent and family owned.
• Camilla studied at the Whitehouse Institute of Design in Sydney and won a scholarship to the Accademia Italiana in Florence, where she was finishing her masters when the label debuted at Australian Fashion Week in 2003. Marc studied engineering and commerce at the University of New South Wales.
• First standalone boutique in Paddington, Sydney, in 2009; a swim line in 2007; a lower-priced C&M diffusion line in 2012; the opening show at Australian Fashion Week in 2013 and again in 2018 for its 15th anniversary.
• Today: 15 boutiques in Australia including flagships in Woollahra (Sydney), Chadstone (Melbourne) and Burnside Village (Adelaide, opened July 2025), a boutique at Galeries Lafayette Haussmann in Paris and a 2025 pop-up on the International Designer floor at Harrods in London.
• Camilla Freeman-Topper was named Designer of the Year at the 2025 Marie Claire Australia Women of the Year Awards.
• The house runs Ovaries. Talk About Them., a campaign launched in 2020 in memory of the founders’ mother that has raised more than 2.5 million Australian dollars for the UNSW Gynaecological Cancer Research Group and the world’s first early detection test for ovarian cancer.
• At Luxury Shoes : 237 current-collection pieces from $220 to $3,400, median $440: 81 tops, 51 pants, 26 dresses, 38 jackets and coats, 16 knits, 14 shorts and 9 skirts.

The founders and the idea

The brand describes itself as a meeting of two disciplines: Camilla’s foundation in fashion design and Marc’s in engineering, which it credits for a considered approach to construction, precision and quality. Wikipedia sums the style up as masculine tailoring with feminine silhouettes, and Vogue Australia has defined the hallmarks as luxurious fabrics, colourful prints and eccentric details. In practice the two founders divided the work early, with Freeman managing the business and Freeman-Topper designing, and that partnership still runs the company more than two decades on. The label was invited to debut at Australian Fashion Week in 2003 while Camilla was still completing her studies in Florence, and international recognition followed from its second season, when it began exporting.

What Camilla and Marc makes

Tailoring is the centre of the house. Every season builds a suiting story, a blazer and a matching pant in Australian wool, a technical fabric the brand sources from Korea, a European boucle, with the shoulder sharpened with pads on some pieces and relaxed on others, and the leg wide and pleated, slim with a puddled hem, cropped, cut as a culotte. Around the suits sit trench coats in cotton, twill and sheer nylon, a leather coat, a fringe-trimmed Helix coat with a fitted waist, strapless dresses in a wool and silk blend with an internal bodice, silk slip dresses in in-house prints, satin cowl dresses, denim in straight and slim cuts, merino and silk knits, and a broad line of rib tanks, fitted tees and long-sleeve cotton tops that the brand designs to be worn under the tailoring. Leather goods, footwear and jewellery complete the range at the brand; Luxury Handbags concentrates on the ready-to-wear. Our styling guide explains how the pieces work together.

The stores and the world around them

The brand opened Paddington in 2009, Fiveways in 2014, Mosman in 2015, Emporium Melbourne in 2016, The Strand Arcade in Sydney in 2017 and its first Perth boutique at Claremont Quarter in 2018. The current network is 15 boutiques in Australia, among them the Woollahra flagship on Queen Street, where the label threw its 20th birthday party in 2023, Chadstone in Melbourne, the first boutique redesigned after the 2022 rebrand, Burnside Village in Adelaide, the first South Australian store, James Street in Brisbane, Bondi, Chatswood, Armadale and two outlets in Rosebery and Cremorne. Paris came with a space on the designer floor of Galeries Lafayette Haussmann, and in 2025 the brand took a pop-up on the International Designer floor at Harrods in London, designed with the Sydney studio Akin Atelier that designs its boutiques. Where to buy Camilla and Marc lists every address.

The rebrand, the campaign and the award

In 2022 the house unveiled a new logo and an interlocking C and M monogram, introduced through its Voyage collection and now woven, embroidered and embossed into pieces across the range. The same year the founders’ health campaign moved to the front of the brand: Ovaries. Talk About Them. began in 2020, is named for the disease that killed their mother Pamela at 42 when Camilla was 11 and Marc was 13, and has raised more than 2.5 million Australian dollars in five years, all of it given to Professor Caroline Ford’s research group at UNSW to bring a DNA-based early detection test to clinical trials. An annual T-shirt, designed in-house, carries the message. In 2025 Marie Claire Australia named Camilla Freeman-Topper its Designer of the Year.

Who wears Camilla and Marc

Wikipedia records Kate Bosworth, Kirsten Dunst, Rose Byrne and Kristen Stewart among its high-profile wearers, and a following among American editors and stylists including InStyle’s Laura Brown and Vanessa Traina. The brand’s own journal names Olivia DeJonge, Zoe Foster-Blake and Melanie Grant among the friends of the house who came to the 20th anniversary. The customer the label designs for dresses for work and for the evening in the same pieces: the suit for a boardroom, the strapless Sona dress for a wedding, the rib tank and straight jeans at the weekend.

Sustainability and making

The brand states a circular design intent: garments made to last, care and repair encouraged, FSC-certified recyclable packaging, solar power on its standalone buildings since 2021 and 2022, and cloth choices that include Australian non-mulesed wool and recycled polyester. Each Luxury Handbags product page states the composition of that piece, and the size guide explains how the brand’s Australian sizes convert.

How to shop Camilla and Marc at Luxury Shoes

Every piece at Luxury Handbags is authenticated, ships worldwide by DHL Express and FedEx, and is listed on the UK size ladder with the brand’s fit note and the model’s measurements. Start with the suits and the blazers, which are the reason most people come to the label, then the dresses, the trench coats and the tanks and tees. The price guide sets out what each category costs, and the Camilla and Marc collection at Luxury Shoes lists everything in stock.

Frequently asked questions

Who founded Camilla and Marc?

Siblings Camilla Freeman-Topper and Marc Freeman, in Sydney in 2003. Camilla is the creative director and Marc the chief executive, and the company remains family owned.

Where is Camilla and Marc from?

Sydney, Australia. The label launched at Australian Fashion Week in 2003, opened its first boutique in Paddington in 2009 and now has 15 boutiques across Australia plus a boutique in Paris.

Is Camilla and Marc an Australian brand?

Yes. It is one of the best known Australian designer labels, headquartered in Sydney, with boutiques in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth and a growing wholesale business overseas.

What is Camilla and Marc known for?

Tailoring: blazers and matching pants in Australian wool and technical cloth, trench coats, strapless dresses with an internal bodice, silk slip dresses in in-house prints, and a line of rib tanks and fitted tees designed to be worn with the suits.

Is Camilla and Marc the same as Camilla?

No. Camilla, the Australian resort label of Camilla Franks, is a different company known for printed kaftans. Camilla and Marc is the Sydney tailoring house of Camilla Freeman-Topper and Marc Freeman.

Who wears Camilla and Marc?

Kate Bosworth, Kirsten Dunst, Rose Byrne and Kristen Stewart are recorded among its wearers, and the brand counts Olivia DeJonge and Zoe Foster-Blake among the friends of the house.

Is Camilla and Marc authentic at Luxury Shoes ?

Yes. Every Camilla and Marc piece sold by Luxury Handbags is sourced and authenticated before dispatch, and only the 237 pieces in stock from the current collections appear in these guides.

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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.