Wilde started out as a model at just 14, after being introduced to the stylist Isabella Blow by a friend of her mother’s – for she is very well connected indeed. We just took a risk, sold our flat in Ladbroke Grove and moved down here.’ ‘We had no connections to Somerset – I grew up in Hampshire, my husband is from Richmond and most of our friends are in London. ‘People started asking me which school I had put Sasha down for when he was only two weeks old!’ she recalls. Previously a city dweller, Wilde found herself unexpectedly longing to return to the countryside after her eldest son was born and she realised that she didn’t want to bring him up in the capital. Her husband Alan Pownall is the lead singer of the electro-pop band Pale and the couple now live near the fashionable Somerset town of Bruton, in three old farm cottages that have been knocked together.
It’s hard to tell that the willowy blonde has two small sons – she’s 28 but looks even younger, with flawless porcelain skin and an ethereal beauty. In my industry, it’s often assumed that if you have babies, then you’re not going to have your career.’
They even let me bring Shiloh on set for the latest series when he was just a couple of months old. But the writer and producer Debbie Horsfield said, “Hang on a second, why can’t we do this? Why can’t she work, and be a mother and pregnant, if she feels that she can?” So we made it happen, which has been really wonderful and quite refreshing. ‘As it was a seven-month shoot, I assumed that I probably couldn’t take it.
‘I got the role and three days later I discovered that I was pregnant,’ she says.
There was another reason that Horace featured so prominently in Poldark he was a convenient prop to shield Wilde’s figure, as shooting of season two coincided with her second pregnancy. But the dog was perfect for Caroline – she’s like a child at the beginning, very young and naive, and her pet almost fulfilled the role of a teddy bear.’ ‘They’re so noisy – Horace snuffled over every track so each bit of the recording had to be edited. ‘I don’t think anyone anticipated how difficult it would be to film with a pug,’ she says. Playing the deliciously manipulative heiress Caroline Penvenen, Wilde has brought a touch of glamour to the 18th-century copper mines, capturing the heart of the local doctor and defying her guardian, all the while with a lapdog clasped to her chest. And, as fans of the period block-buster Poldark will know, she spends a large portion of her working life in the company of a little black-faced pug. At the Town & Country photo-shoot, she played second fiddle to a truculent peacock who had his own ideas about what constituted a good pose. It seems to be Gabriella Wilde’s fate to be surrounded by highly-strung animals. “It’s not something I take part in day to day now – I’m a mum and live out in the countryside – but it’s definitely something I love.IN FINE FEATHER: As she returns to our screens in a dramatic new series of ‘Poldark’, Gabriella Wilde models the season’s most ethereal couture in a magical secret garden In her interview, Gabriella opens up about how she connects to fashion.
Stylist Camilla Pole dresses Gabriella in the designs of Dolce & Gabbana, Stella McCartney, Temperley London and more.įashion Shoot: Gabriella Wilde for FarFetch July 2017 Actress Gabriella Wilde poses in Henrik Vibskov textured sweater Gabriella Wilde on Her Relationship to Fashion Photographed by Tom Craig, the former Burberry face wears colorful looks from the latest collections. Called ‘Free Spirit’, the feature focuses on bohemian inspired fashions. ‘Poldark’ star Gabriella Wilde channels her inner fashion plate for a recent shoot captured for Farfetch. Gabriella Wilde wears Celia Dragouni maxi dress and Katerina Makriyianni earrings