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Elle, StilettoWheels & PlusBlack
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 💋 Elle
Pink DSquared2 Hat
Uh-oh, I have a seriously itchy keyboard finger currently hovering on the ‘Buy Now’ button for this fabulous fuchsia straw hat by Dsquared2 at Farfetch. See how cute it looks on – in this brown version, below, at Dsquared2 online, $320. Fat or thin, hats are in but +Black is my mantra: dare I go pink?
MoreSavage Beauty, London 2015
Yes, this is totally crazy but I have just bought tickets to see Savage Beauty at the V&A in March 2015. Booking frenzy gone mad, no? I loathe planning so far ahead and there are always very real doubts that, health wise, I will be able to make it – I usually think a couple […]
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Looking For Light: Jane Bown
There’s a nice review today on a documentary film, Looking for Light, about photographer, Jane Bown, by Hayley Ellis Jones at the-f-word: Inconspicuous presence behind the camera. The promotional clip for the film from Youtube is below and there is a lot more about her to be found on The Guardian website: see Jane Bown in their […]
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Dior: The Legendary Images
I have just pre-ordered, release date 3 June 2014, what looks to be a stunning book full of brilliant fashion photography: Dior: The Legendary Images: Great Photographers and Dior. The publisher, Rizzoli, says: About This Book Reaching beyond the intimate setting of the fashion show, the photographer paints a portrait of haute couture that takes […]
MoreCarine Roitfeld, Mademoiselle C
I finally got round to watching the DVD: Mademoiselle C this week and found it … disappointing. If you don’t know her, Carine Roitfeld was the editor of French Vogue for over a decade, having been Tom Ford’s muse and involved in myriad aspects of the fashion world prior to that. In 2011-12, she departed […]
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