![]() She has authored the books Elliott Smith, an in-depth look at the late artist through photographs and recorded conversations Under Great White Northern Lights, documenting the White Stripes on the road during their final Canadian tour and Beck, a chronicle of her 16-year friendship and creative partnership with musician Beck Hansen.ĭe Wilde’s creative eye extends to fashion, as well. Her latest music videos include the color coded and intricately choreographed “Big God” for Florence + The Machine and the deeply personal “Once In My Life” for The Decemberists, starring her brother, Jacob. She has been instrumental in exploring new ground in the visual identity of an ever-expanding pool of well-known actors, musicians and artists including Beck, Elliott Smith, The White Stripes, Childish Gambino, Lena Dunham, Jenny Lewis, Kirsten Dunst, Zooey Deschanel. The first installment, released in 2015, was featured in Vogue and honored by the London International Awards and Berlin Fashion Festival.ĭe Wilde has also written,directed, and shot brand films for Oliver Peoples entitled Catch a Tuesday, starring Zooey Deschanel, and The Children Are Bored on Sundays, also with Elijah Wood and Shirley Manson. The series won Gold for Branded Content at this year’s Clios Fashion Awards. Starring Elijah Wood and featuring Emma Roberts, Sasha Frolova, Amber Valletta, and Natalia Dyer, The Postman Dreams 2 is a humorous and whimsical showcase of branded content for a luxury brand. Last winter, she reteamed with Prada for a second installment of the label’s popular branded film series The Postman Dreams. She combines her contemporary pop style with a distinctly cinematic feel, which can be seen in her recent work: a playful movie poster for I-Tonya an Italian dreamscape for Martini and an empowering, dance-driven spot for Uniqlo. The line between art and advertising, is effortlessly blurred by de Wilde. ![]() Through her portraits, music videos, commercials, books and films, she has defined the visual identity of some of entertainment’s greatest talents. ![]() Each of her projects is an intimate collaboration between her and her subjects. Times notes, at a Victorian umbrella shop in London after requesting its “weirdest cane.Director Autumn de Wilde documents the ever-changing cultural zeitgeist. De Wilde’s uniform, meanwhile, is decadent and lavish she describes it, simply, as “a mix of Paddington Bear and Oscar Wilde.”ĭe Wilde is 49 now and uses a cane for arthritis, but of course it’s not just any cane it’s modeled after one once owned by the French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and it unscrews at the top, where a vial of Japanese whiskey and shot glasses are hidden. I too am a uniform person, but this mostly involves jeans and a Uniqlo T-shirt. Where do I begin with these clothes? She’s obviously a masterful, elegant dresser, one who subscribes to the uniform doctrine. “De Wilde, who is six feet two, wore a plum-colored Borsalino fedora (“I was re-upping my hats, and Bill Nighy helped me”), a high-collared pink blouse, a dark A-line jacket, a mango Prada Galleria bag, navy trousers, pink socks, and black oxford shoes.” Photo: Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Imageīehold this description of a casual de Wilde look from The New Yorker: She’s the unofficial photographer for Rodarte, the work of which she’s documented since the brand’s inception in 2005, and she is even responsible for this Childish Gambino album cover: Reilly to Robert Pattinson to a pin-up Lena Dunham. Emma is her first feature-length film, but she’d actually spent the past few decades as a prolific celebrity photographer, shooting a bizarre menagerie of famous people, from John C. Her look is defined by fine, comfortable things velvet slippers, wide-brimmed felt fedoras, and custom-made suits by shops in Brooklyn I have never heard of.Īs I scrolled through her Instagram in the wee hours of the morning, I immediately became enraptured and soon realized that Autumn de Wilde is also not your average Hollywood director. ![]() There’s something in her posture - proud, ramrod straight, unflinching - that suggests a baroness or mid-19th-century silk tycoon she embodies a sort of elevated taste that people (me) aspire to have but are too dumb and inexperienced to imitate. When you first see Autumn de Wilde, you know she is not a regular person. I was curious about how Emma’s aesthetics came to be, which was how I came upon its director: a woman named Autumn de Wilde. ![]() I hadn’t seen a period movie look so tasty since Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette in 2006, which with its campy Versaillian milieus - all frosted cakes and feathered muffs - thoroughly enchanted me. ![]()
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