Carpenter's Daughter

As she tells in the film, Camilla Moire Smith, founder of Carpenter’s Daughter, began the business as a way of exploring her varied interests in creative fields from sculpture to floristry, cooking, painting and gardening. ‘I think it also came from a love of supporting other people’s creativity, and perhaps the apron, as an object, symbolises this’, she says.

As a filmmaker, creativity is central to Julian’s life too, and as the collaboration developed the film became a part of this process of one creative pursuit engaging with and supporting another’s creativity. Just as much a meditation on creativity as it is a story of a unique brand, Julian describes it as almost a ‘snowball of creativity, as I made a film about Camille making objects that help others to make things’.

The rustic, welcoming house was the location for the lunch in the film, which captures the spirit of community and creativity that Carpenter’s Daughter has cultivated. The leather and canvas aprons have become a tangible connection between Camilla and the artists, cooks, gardeners, designers and makers who wear them. ‘Carpenter’s Daughter is special in that I’m constantly surprised by how such a simple object has opened up and connected me to so many networks’, she says.

In only two and a half minutes, the film captures captures the ethos and aesthetic of Carpenter’s Daughter and the creative community that surrounds the business. A brief yet poignant insight into the world of one creative, captured by another, it is both heartening and inspiring.