Art: Veiled Aura Lola Roftoples Mealha July 4, 2014 Art, Style, Vintage Two weekends ago, I headed to Fat Faced Cat - one of my favourite vintage shops in London - searching for something for my fiancé to wear on our upcoming wedding day. Whilst he found the most perfect pair of...
Art: Shadow Ladies Lola Roftoples Mealha May 24, 2014 Art, My Humble Abode An artist living and working in the tiny hillside Californian town of Jenner, Clare Elssaesser is responsible for some of the most beautiful pieces of work you'll be lucky to get your hands on. Inspired by...
Beauty Icons: Birds of a Feather Lola Roftoples Mealha April 29, 2014 Art, Beauty Icons, Style, Vintage ... flock together. In the words of Greek fabulist Aesop, 'It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds', and although I could not agree more, I still take pleasure in looking at exquisite creatures,...
Art: Poetry in Motion Lola Roftoples Mealha February 24, 2014 Art, Vintage Growing up, I used to be a dedicated collector of images, striking photographic instances retrieved from magazines, archived into categories and time and again used as a platform for escapism and inspiration...
Silver Screen: The Hitchcock Heroine Lola Roftoples Mealha February 18, 2014 Art, Beauty Icons, Silver Screen, Vintage Fragile, beautiful, disturbed, regal, aloof, and positively seductive, the icy blondes honoured by Alfred Hitchcock's movies had complex, intricately woven personalities which puzzled the men who crossed their...
In the Bag: Clara Paget, model and actress Lola Roftoples Mealha December 5, 2013 Art, In The Bag 1 Comment Daughter of a writer and a painter, British model and actress Clara Paget was born surrounded by art and beauty. With her fair, Patrician good looks, Clara is a muse to modern brands such as Gucci, but...
Silver Screen: The Virgin Suicides Lola Roftoples Mealha November 21, 2013 Art, Silver Screen, Style Sofia Coppola's movie, The Virgin Suicides - faithfully based on the debut novel by Jeffrey Eugenides - was an immense aesthetic reference to me when it came out in 1999. Still fresh-faced and rebellious, I...