You Need to Know: Aisling Camps
This is Aisling Camps. She’s a Trini knitwear designer who founded her eponymous label back in 2013. Born and raised in the twin-island Republic of Trinidad & Tobago, Aisling actually started as a Mechanical Engineer before pivoting into fashion. And now she helms one of the most premium knitwear brands in the world.
Her pieces embody the shapely simplicity of nature. Think: curling seaweed, delicate spiderwebs… Think: stalactites and traces of seafoam knitted and hugging the body of the wearer. With an instinct for the sculptural, Aisling often draws on her Trini heritage, demonstrating a delightful grasp of movement and lines. Everything about this label, and its creator, combines casual sophistication with an utterly contemporary, and luxurious, point of view.
I love how easily Aisling toggles between chunky macrame techniques and feathery light knitwork.
With all of her sustainable, handmade goodness now based in Brooklyn, Aisling has garnered quite a bit of acclaim. She just released an exclusive collaborative capsule collection with Isabella Rossellini’s Mama Farm, through Moda Operandi’s Made for Moda partnership. In 2021, the awards started rolling in. She won the CFDA Fashion Trust US award, and most recently – in March of 2023 – she won the inaugural St. John’s Ready-to-Wear award. And with magazine features a-plenty, Aisling’s pieces have been seen on Tracee Ellis Ross, Gabrielle Union, Janelle Monae, Zendaya, Taraji P. Henson, and First Lady Michelle Obama – and that is just naming a few.