Her father, Jerry de Wilde, was also a photographer who captured the late ’60s counterculture, shooting the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa. I think we all feel really tender because it’s a very powerful example.”ĭe Wilde grew up in L.A., the daughter of two hippies who once lived on a commune called the Farm in the hills above Warner Bros. “Basically a single mom who worked so hard and at this age is coming into her own. “If there were more female directors, Autumn’s story wouldn’t be such a rare and precious thing to us,” she said. July, who has watched De Wilde struggle for years to try to land her first film, said she was filled with emotion after attending the “Emma” premiere alongside the group. In Los Angeles - she lives in a Glassell Park home - her friends include a hip collaborative of artists she has also photographed: the Mulleavy sisters, actress Zooey Deschanel, filmmaker Miranda July and singer Jenny Lewis. She has documented the work of Rodarte designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy from the inception of their careers, and is often behind the camera for their fashion campaigns. Over the last two decades, she has shot everyone from Willie Nelson to Robert Pattinson, Lena Dunham to Busy Phillips. Once, after spending two sleepless nights creating 150 paper robot invitations, her mother asked her: “Why don’t you just keep it simple?” De Wilde raged: “Don’t you know me by now? I will never! Keep it! Simple!”ĭe Wilde, who will turn 50 this year, is best known for her work as a celebrity photographer. (She says her style is a mix of Paddington Bear and Oscar Wilde.) Her friends refer to her as “the rock ’n’ roll Martha Stewart” because at parties, she gifts everyone with handmade favors. Every day, she dresses in a uniform - some version of a suit with a broad-brimmed felt hat. The idea of following standard protocol is anathema to De Wilde. I thought it was so much more when I bought it.” It actually only holds a shot, which is so disappointing.
“These need a little wash, because we’ve partaken recently. Inside was a thin vial containing Japanese whiskey, bookended by a couple of shot glasses. “Check this out,” she said, unscrewing the top of the French walking stick, supposedly modeled after one once owned by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. She went to a 19th century Victorian umbrella shop in London and told the shopkeeper: “I need your weirdest cane.” When her arthritis got so bad that she needed a cane, Autumn de Wilde didn’t just pick one up at the pharmacy.
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