Our World
An Interview with Wilde Studio
Written by Sophie Gallagher
Lindsey and Rachael have worked together for eleven years, which is longer than most bands and some marriages. They finish each other’s sentences and then argue about the ending.
Half greenhouse, half archive
Their studio is half greenhouse, half archive. One end is alive and dripping. The other is flat files, labelled by year, holding every pressing they have ever made and a good number they cannot explain.
Drawing something that is already dying
We sat down with them the week the SS26 samples arrived, to talk about what it means to draw something that is already dying.
A pressed flower is a record of a specific afternoon. You are not painting a flower. You are painting a Tuesday.
On accidents
Rachael is unsentimental about the pressings that fail. Lindsey keeps them. This is the entire working method, as far as we can tell: one of them throws things out and the other one does not.
What comes next
They are drawing from a hedgerow this autumn — nothing cultivated, nothing bought. Whether it becomes cloth is, they say, entirely our problem.
Rachael, Wilde Studio
Frequently Asked Questions
Who are Wilde Studio?
Lindsey and Rachael, a floral design duo who have worked together for eleven years from a studio that is half greenhouse, half archive.
What did they make for SS26?
The Pressed Flower print, drawn from botanical pressings rather than from live blooms.
Do they work outside fashion?
Most of their work is installation and event florals. Textile print is a recent and, they say, accidental direction.
