Vogue Australia

IN HER FASHION

Who:

Fashion designer Emilia Wickstead, her husband Daniel, and their two children.

Where:

West London, UK.

What:

An elegantly renovated apartment in a late 19th-century red-brick mansion block.

When Emilia Wickstead was 11 years old, she was discovered by her mother, wedged beneath a collapsed wardrobe. “I'd been moving furniture around in my bedroom,” says 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 (not to mention her interest in women's wardrobes), 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

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