Dresses are the category Kamperett was built around, and the vintage-leaning romanticism the founders describe, Santillo's word is nostalgia, comes through in silhouettes that feel pulled from an earlier decade without costume-y literalness. It tracks for a co-founder who has said she is drawn to the history and memory embedded in old garments as much as their construction.

The skirts carry the same California-inflected, slightly bohemian sensibility that Chiu has described as her side of the design partnership, softened by Santillo's more art-deco eye. Small details tend to do the work here rather than loud prints, in keeping with a brand that still designs and produces its pieces in San Francisco.

Kamperett is a genuinely small, founder-run label rather than a manufactured heritage story, built by two women who met at a home goods company and decided to bet on their combined aesthetic. That size is the honest tradeoff: fewer archive references to draw on than a house with decades behind it, but a design point of view that has stayed consistent since a 2015 launch.