Month: March 2014

Platee Replayed …

Arts Info by Elle, StilettoWheels & PlusBlackMarch 31, 2014March 31, 2014

Liv Warfield on Jimmy Fallon

Music by Elle, StilettoWheels & PlusBlackMarch 28, 2014March 31, 2014

Summer at Walkers of Pottergate

Shops by Elle, StilettoWheels & PlusBlackMarch 28, 2014January 5, 2017

Arts Info by Elle, StilettoWheels & PlusBlackMarch 27, 2014

From Cool Hunting, an Inspiring 5 minute interview with Fire Island Opera’s Edwin Cahill (Artistic Director) and Bradley Moore (Music Director) as they reflect on last summer’s performances, and talk about what’s next. I really love the way Fire Island are attempting to make opera a more accessible art form for those who are unfamiliar with it […]

Arts Info by Elle, StilettoWheels & PlusBlackMarch 26, 2014March 26, 2014

Birds Of Paradise at MoMu

Having seen a lot of feathers and furs paraded down the recent Runways for AW14 Collections, how timely that MoMu, in Antwerp, should have on a Birds of Paradise exhibition, running to 24 August 2014: This exhibition is an ode to the elegance and refinement of the application of plumes and feathers in fashion and […]

Shops by Elle, StilettoWheels & PlusBlackMarch 25, 2014March 25, 2014

Fashion Illustration at SHOWstudio

Having read about illustrator Helen Bullock, see illustration above, in both AnOther magazine – Drama At Prada AW14 – and 1883 magazine – Interview Helen Bullock, I clicked across to her own website for more info. From there, I went on to SHOWstudio and, oh yes, this I like: SHOWstudio is an award-winning fashion website, founded […]

+B Interiors by Elle, StilettoWheels & PlusBlackMarch 24, 2014

World of Interiors Illustrations

In my monthly troll through interiors magazines – I am more invested in this than usual with upcoming home improvements happening – I was engaged by the charming illustrations that accompany these extracts from Alastair McAlpine’s World of a Collector columns, featured in the World Of Interiors (WOI) Magazine April 2014, following his death in […]

Arts Info by Elle, StilettoWheels & PlusBlackMarch 20, 2014March 20, 2014

Girls: Lena Dunham and Adam

Adam is just my favourite person in Girls – he was so sweetly adult in last week’s penultimate episode of Girls and juxtaposed against his otherwise wild boyishness … what’s not to thank Lena Dunham for in creating him and Adam Driver for bringing him to life onscreen? See them both, photographed by Annie Leibovitz, […]

+B Accessories by Elle, StilettoWheels & PlusBlackMarch 19, 2014

Bibi Van Der Velden Solar Bracelet

I really love this Solar Bracelet by Bibi van der Velden but, as an infrequent wearer of jewellery at the moment, I just don’t think I can afford to buy it. at €2,670, to have it sit on a shelf at home alongside the many other pretty things that I have and do not wear. […]

Arts Info by Elle, StilettoWheels & PlusBlackMarch 17, 2014

Robert Mapplethorpe Flowers

It is such a beautiful day – light, bright, warm. A day for flowers. Specifically, having seen them yesterday in the Sunday Times Magazine, Robert Mapplethorpe’s Flowers: click across to view more on The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation site. Exquisite. All is calm in my world … for the moment.