A visual journey through our long-lasting friendship and creative bond – Helena Christensen & Camilla Stærk.
It all began with their first meeting, also their first creative collaboration, one day during the summer of 2000.
Helena was to photograph Camilla's portrait and her first collection for Nylon magazine, which Helena had just co-founded. Camilla drove up, along with journalist Malene, to Helena's summer house in northern Denmark on this beautiful day. After meeting the family and Helena's newborn baby, peacefully awake in the bedroom, a beautiful creative exchange began.
They worked mostly in silence, no words seemed necessary, and it is still the same today. There was a unique understanding between them, an immediate deep bond of expression in their two colliding worlds.
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" collection was tenderly displayed on Helena's antique mannequin, in shadows and light, and it was as if the Polaroids and film rolls created that day revealed something more; the feeling behind the garments, captured in the afternoon's net.
This day marked the inauguration of their creative bond, which has continued to grow and expand within their shared universe, alongside their friendship, for which they are so grateful.