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Welcome, I'm Elle Wellesley. Stiletto Wheels is my personal blog on managing dramatic, illness-induced, lifestyle change - from stiletto heels to heels on wheels. Plus Black is my lifestyle blog where I share my inspiration and ideas for sustaining stylish fabulousness through life's unexpected transitional moments. Ever optimistic, I continue to believe that it is possible to lead a fabulous life in heels on wheels. Smiles đź’‹ Elle
You know how most people recovering from in-hospital treatment just wanna eat? Not me. “Bling me some clip-on earrings.” Yep, that’s me from my sick-bed.. “Just like the ones above. They’ll make me feel better.” Oscar De La Renta sparklies for ÂŁ335 on Net-A-Porter. Gods, how much do I love online shopping? Too much when […]
MoreLots of very pretty African influenced jewellery to be seen on the Penny Winter site. Interesting back story on the about page too: … We are competing with world known brands, except without any of the advantages,in Africa. This is my first solo jewellry collection, outside of my Ngong House boutique, which is my husband’s […]
MoreLove this image, above, about to feature in the Financial Times’ How To Spend It magazine, as seen on Fashion Gone Rogue:Â Kate King Models Sari Style for How to Spend It by Andrew Yee. Â Click the link to see more. Just beautiful.
MoreRecuperating at home from my latest hospital treatment, I came across fashion illustrator Clym Evernden’s work via Six Rules Of Celine Fall 2014 for Another Magazine. Clicking across to Clym Draws online, I learnt that: Clym Evernden is an award winning artist who has a signature inky style of drawing: a fast and spontaneous technique which […]
MoreHearing the news of her death, it is impossible, today, to get past memories of the great Maya Angelou. Her thoughts, writing, poetry and prose, have so enriched the lives of those in her time and will, I’m sure, continue to do so for all future generations. Â Hard to say more as I actually feel […]
MoreHow beautiful are these shoes, above?  Sadly, not wearable but part of an experimental LĂ©i ZÇ” Shoe Collection, named after the Chinese empress who is attributed with inventing the silk reel, by German designers Nicole Goymann and Christoph John.  Read more about their techniques and plans in dezeen: Nicole Goymann and Christoph John … Whilst on dezeen, […]
Morei love these Art Smith Earrings, above and below – see more on the Art Smith website – and what an interesting story: Arthur Smith was born to Jamaican parents in Cuba in 1917. His family settled in Brooklyn in 1920 and Smith showed artistic talent at an early age, winning honorable mention as an […]
MoreI absolutely love the beautiful still, above, one of a series from a collaboration at SHOWstudio: The Elegant Universe for V magazine:: Nick Knight and couture doyenne Lady Amanda Harlech unite with model and physics scholar Alexia Wight for a shoot that explores the mathematics of beauty. With Knight on camera (in this case his iPhone) […]
MoreI’ve been reading about, and watching, the very interesting stand-up routine of Adrienne Truscott: Is it ever ok to laugh about rape? Having watched the Youtube video, below, and Adrienne Truscott’s ‘One-Lady Rape About Comedy‘, I’m still not sure. I do like the way she skewers the hypocrisy about attitudes to women, rape and sexism […]
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