With a fittingly fastidious approach to interiors, the designer brings her signature blend of proportion, colour and classicism to her family home.
was 11 years old, she was discovered by her mother, wedged beneath a collapsed wardrobe. “I’d been moving furniture around in my bedroom,” smiles the 39-year-old, Auckland-born, West London-based fashion designer. “I was moving pieces around constantly.”
What doesn’t concuss you, seemingly, makes you stronger. Wickstead’s interior design ambition , never waned. Before she moved into the spacious, light-filled flat she shares with her husband Daniel, nine-year-old daughter Mercedes Amalia and seven-year-old son Gilberto in 2018 – housed in a regal red-brick mansion block built at the turn of the 19th century – she had files bulging with references.
Emilia Wickstead photographed in her West London home. A pair of newly installed double doors lead into a light-filled dining room. Emilia wears an Emilia Wickstead dress and Prada shoes.The statuesque, seamless and luxurious materiality of the Milanese apartments that Wickstead grew up in from age 14 inspired her four-month renovation. “We ripped everything out,” she explains.
Wickstead’s refined fashion designs revel in the regality and classicism of old-world glamour, fitting for chic soirées and garden parties, and beloved by aristocratic and A-list clients alike, from theto Zawe Ashton, Princess Eugenie to Alexa Chung. It’s unsurprising then, that the four walls of her dining room were the only ones newly built into her home’s predominantly interconnecting floorplan.
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