Beauty Icons: Anna Karina Lola Roftoples Mealha October 4, 2017 Beauty Icons, Silver Screen, Vintage One of French cinemas' most emblematic faces and and an ambassador of La Nouvelle Vague, Anna Karina was born in Denmark to a dress shop owner and a ship's captain. Having begun her career in her native...
My Humble Abode: Helena Christensen,model and photographer Lola Roftoples Mealha May 13, 2014 Beauty Icons, My Humble Abode, Spaces, Style, Vintage 1 Comment Ever since the late eighties, Danish beauty Helena Christensen has been muse to designers, photographers, and musicians alike (remember 'Wicked Game' by Chris Isaak?). Besides her auburn mane, emerald-green...
Vintage: Behind Closed Doors Lola Roftoples Mealha May 8, 2014 Beauty Icons, My Humble Abode, Shopping, Style, Vintage Thinking of a perfect day out in London, few things come first on my list than having a coffee somewhere nice in the company of a loved one, followed by a relaxed 'vintage crawl' in search of some precious...
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,...
Style: Kate Moss for Topshop Lola Roftoples Mealha April 26, 2014 Beauty Icons, Cities, London, Shopping, Style Most of us have a Kate Moss story. Mine takes me back to high school, when - a fresh-faced teen dividing my attention between Nirvana and fashion photography - I first laid eyes on a certain Calvin Klein...
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...
Beauty Icons: The Look of Love Lola Roftoples Mealha February 13, 2014 Beauty Icons, Vintage 1 Comment 'Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.',...
Beauty Icons: Pale and Interesting Lola Roftoples Mealha January 13, 2014 Beauty Icons, Vintage As a child in sun-drenched Lisbon, one of my growing pains came from the fact that - contrary to everyone around me - my skin was painfully pale, the kind of milky white which, so transparent and devoid of...
Beauty Icons: Christmas Beauty Lola Roftoples Mealha December 24, 2013 Beauty Icons 'Tis the season to be merry, and by The Londonesque standards, beautiful as well. It may proof difficult to not indulge in seasonal treats such as Christmas pudding and mulled wine, so your figure may be...
Beauty Icons: Pretty in Pink Lola Roftoples Mealha December 15, 2013 Beauty Icons, Style Nothing spells the word 'feminine' as loud as the colour pink. From the darkest to the daintiest, pink comes in all shapes and sizes, and - contrary to popular belief - there's a right shade of pink for...
Beauty Icons: Marilyn Monroe & CHANEL N. 5 Lola Roftoples Mealha December 12, 2013 Beauty Icons, Silver Screen, Vintage 1 Comment It has been over 60 years since Marilyn Monroe was first quoted confessing she wore nothing but Chanel No. 5 to bed. The legendary French brand went on a mission to discover the source, and the result is...
Beauty Icons: Kate Moss for Playboy magazine Lola Roftoples Mealha December 7, 2013 Beauty Icons 2 Comments In what I would call a heavenly marriage, Kate Moss has joined forces with Hugh Hefner's Playboy, in a toast to the magazine's 60th birthday and the Croydon-born model's own 40th. Although I challenge anyone...