Fashion as an exoskeleton of the psyche

You put on that special coat and with it comes a feeling, that specific way of experiencing yourself…

Something you wanted to feel. A little more presence. An ease that somehow gives you a boost. A way of meeting the day that feels more like you…

That’s the magic of the wearing the Right garment…

I’m Camilla Wellton, a fashion designer based in Stockholm.

From a very young age, I’ve always seen clothes as the exoskeleton of my psyche: tools that help me stay in touch with specific inner qualities I needed to embody to feel like myself.

Explore my collections or visit my Diary for the stories behind the clothes, from pattern construction and movement to the relationships we begin before saying a word.

The Fire Collection

Short silhouettes, expansive sleeves and strong collars in black, taupe and rust.

Explore The Fire

The Awakening Collection

High collars, generous sleeves and shaped waists, with pattern and texture adding another layer of expression.

Explore The Awakening

The Rise Collection

Sculptural coats and jackets, with defined waists, sweeping hems and collars that frame the face.

Explore The Rise

My name is
Camilla Wellton

I started making clothes when I was five. At first, I understood them as a way of strengthening my connection with myself. Later, I recognised that connection as a form of self-love: giving a feeling a shape I could dress myself inside.

I’m an afronordic, Swedish – French Caribbean creator and futurist based in Stockholm.

I have practised yoga since I was fifteen.

Yoga and meditation have shaped my collections, alongside science fiction.

Those practices ask me to pay attention to the body I inhabit; science fiction gives me room to imagine what else might be possible.

That is what I hope my clothes can offer the wearer, too: the pleasure of feeling more at home in herself, with room for her mood, her presence and her choices to change.

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The art of pattern cutting

A curved seam, a generous sleeve or a collar that frames the face begins with a practical question: how will this shape work around a moving body?

I am self-taught and make my own patterns, toiles and first samples. A toile is a trial garment. It lets me test a proportion, move a seam and find out what happens when a beautiful drawing becomes something you can put on. The decisions continue through fitting and construction, where an idea has to meet the way a person stands, sits and moves.

In the Diary, I take you inside that process with studio photographs showing the cut pieces, curved panels and unfinished work.

Read Before the garment

The Surreal Collection

Rounded openings, enveloping hoods and overlapping forms that make the space around the body visible.

Explore The Surreal

The Breath Collection

Dresses, separates and outerwear share rounded volume, defined waists and sculptural details, with an orange jacket adding colour.

Explore The Breath

The Water Collection

Pale short dresses and a long black silhouette, with attention to necklines, pockets and the space around the body.

Explore The Water
Because I loved the cuts of her jackets. Classy and modern, for casual as well as business, at not the least the cuts are great no matter whether you’re thin as a nail, or rather slightly better endowed.
Pamela Ravasio

What we shape when we get dressed

Clothes speak before we do. They can invite a connection, create distance or help us hold on to a quality we want to strengthen. In the Diary, I explore fashion as both art and a practical technology for shaping experience.

Begin with The exoskeleton of my psyche for the connection between clothing and self-love, or Before you have said a word for the impressions clothes make on other people. Where the reader enters follows this interest into I AWAKE, the body of work I began developing after fashion had opened the way.

For a closer look at the garments, browse all collections. For an order or collaboration, get in touch.