About Kresse Wesling
Kresse Wesling was a businessperson.
Kresse Anne-Marie Wesling (born ) is a Canadian-born British entrepreneur and co-founder of the luxury recycled accessories company Elvis and Kresse. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Oxford's Said Business School. and moved to Hong Kong aged 17 to study an International Baccalaureate at Li Po Chun United World College from 1994 to 1996. As the hose has a maximum permitted life of 25 years, this represented a large quantity of rubber hose being discarded each year. She and her partner "Elvis" (real name James Henrit) From 2017 they worked with the Burberry Foundation to use offcuts from the international leather industry, turning waste material into luxury goods.
The company was first based in a mill built in 1837 in Tonge, Kent.
Elvis & Kresse are now based at New Barns Farm in Painter's Forstal, Kent, in a purpose-built workshop with straw bale insulation and solar power.
Wesling has said that the greatest influence on her "sustainability thinking" was her grandmother, who grew up on a farm where "they had to grow their own vegetables in the summer or they wouldn't have food in the winter. Her generation didn’t waste anything and that attitude characterised her whole life."
In 2025 she received the Cartier Impact Award in Osaka, Japan, as part of the Cartier Women's Initiative.
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