Camilla Embraces the Year of the Water Rabbit with the Radiant Secret Garden Collection

In ode to the festivities and fireworks that will soon erupt around the world for the Lunar New Year, Australian designer Camilla Franks — whose eponymous label Camilla is known for bold prints inspired by her far-flung travels — has created a capsule collection in scarlet red to help herald the celebrations in style.

The collection is called The Secret Garden, and its signature print features golden tulips, strawberry-dipped orchids, vines of pastel gum leaves, and blooming peonies against a backdrop of scarlet red and crimson. 

Available in eight different styles, the range includes flowing dresses, a peasant-style blouse, a flared jumpsuit, a sculptural mini skirt, and for when the weather gets cooler, a bomber jacket. There’s even a crimson cotton T-shirt featuring the “gentle spirit” of a rabbit, perched amongst botanicals.

All of the pieces in the collection (apart from the T-shirt) are made from 100 percent silk, making them work just as well for resort or loungewear, a style that Franks has helped to elevate in her home country and across the globe.

If the prints and floaty kaftan looks seem a little familiar, that’s because they’ve also recently been featured in White Lotus 2 — on both Jennifer Coolidge and Tom Hollander during soirées on the boat — that has helped spike sales and introduce more of the world to the Australian label.

In line with the rest of Camilla’s collections, each piece in The Secret Garden is a limited edition collectible, as the “prints are hand-drawn and painted by in-house artists, pieces [are] cut and sewn by hand, and every embellishment is applied with precision.”

But it’s the festive fun that all of Camilla’s pieces embody — married with the tradition of marking the Lunar New Year in red — that makes The Secret Garden collection ideal for what Franks calls planting “seeds for the heavenly tomorrows ahead.”