The German designer studied in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp (where Margiela, Demna Gvasalia or the Antwerp Six studied) and created his own brand in 1998, a month after his graduation. His first collection for Camper followed the brand’s line in colour, irony, excess and obsession for cuts.
BERNHARD WILLHELM RENEWS HIS ALLIANCE WITH CAMPER TOGETHER
Camper Together is a collaborative project created in 2006 that goes beyond just the product. By not doing just footwear, they had stores that were redesigned from the particular points of view of certain artists, in a collection that was later joined by people like Gosha Rubchinskiy, Veronique Branquinho, Kiko Kostadinov and Bernard Willhelm, the creator of the perhaps most surprising silhouette of Camper Together.
That first Camper Himalayan was a hybrid between a sneaker and a boot with a zigzagged rubber sole. Turned into a flag for the collaboration between Bernhard Wilhelm and Camper, their unusual and exaggerated shapes derived into a sneaker, sandal and boot collection that kept Wilhelm’s love of provocation and Camper’s Mediterranean spirit. Nowadays, ten years later, they are back at it again celebrating their anniversary by revisiting the original one and at the same time by being inspired by Japanese textiles over a TPU structure.
Once again, to celebrate a decade of collaborations, Bernhard Willhelm renews his alliance with Camper Together through visuals that play with colour and psychedelic experiences with models from Venice Beach’s basketball league.
