In 2020, The White Lotus costume designer Alex Bovaird walked into the Camilla boutique in Costa Mesa, California. She wasn’t shopping for herself, but rather, Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya McQuoid—a rich, single, unstable older woman on a solo vacation at a five-star resort in Hawaii. And Bovaird found the perfect outfit for such a character: a bejeweled, exotic kaftan.
In the first season, Coolidge’s McQuoid wore Camilla—an Australian brand known for their beachy, global-inspired designs—not once, not twice, but five times. In fact, Camilla worked so well within the White Lotus aesthetic that for season two, Bovaird dressed a number of the men—including Tom Hollander and the rest of the “these gays are trying to murder me!” group—in some of Camilla’s silk button-down shirts.
So, for season three, The White Lotus and Camilla have decided to make their symbiotic style relationship official by creating a capsule clothing collection.
Oh, yes. There are V-neck jersey dresses, long pants, button-downs, clutches, scarves, and halter-neck bathing suits. There are kaftans and sarongs aplenty. In summary? If it looks like a chaotic, out-of-touch rich person would wear it on vacation… it’s included.
The White Lotus x Camilla features three different prints inspired by each of the show’s three seasons, with drawings by Lezio Lopes, the Brazilian illustrator who also created The White Lotus’s opening credits. The first, called “Welcome to the White Lotus,” offers a nod to Hawaii and features pineapples, parrots, hibiscus, and palm tree motifs. (Look closely, and you’ll spot some of the season’s most memorable lines woven throughout—like “Where’s my upgrade?”) The second, “Venus on a Vespa” is an ode to the mystique of the Sicilian Baroque, with moody florals and gilded keys.
Then there’s the third: “Where’s My Welcome Drink?”, inspired by the upcoming third season in Thailand. Designer Camilla Frank is mum about how, exactly, the prints relate to the episodes ahead—“I’ve been under lock and key. I’m not allowed to say too much about the third season, but I’m dying to,” she says—but she does reveal it includes animal motifs that represent the characters themselves: monkeys, cobras, crocodiles, and elephants. “It fuses fashion, travel, relationships—and of course, plenty of drama thrown in,” Frank says about the overall aesthetic.
While the lifestyle of the specific characters on The White Lotus isn’t always aspirational—no one pines after the life of Meghan Fahy’s Daphne, or admires Theo James’s Cameron—the fictional world itself is a darkly glamorous one, where sex, scandal, and wealth all collide in a beautiful location. And dressing like that is, well, kind of fun. Just don’t get involved in a murder scheme while you’re at it.
Camilla x White Lotus will be available in stores and online starting February 18—just in time for season three.
