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...
In the Bag: Léa Seydoux, actress Lola Roftoples Mealha February 27, 2014 In The Bag, Products, Shopping, Silver Screen Once upon a time, Léa Seydoux dreamt of becoming an opera singer, but it was at drama school, aged 18, that the French actress found her calling. In perfect Parisian nonchalance, her attitude to beauty is...
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: 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...
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...
Beauty Icons: Catherine Deneuve Lola Roftoples Mealha November 7, 2013 Beauty Icons, Silver Screen, Vintage 3 Comments One cannot think of French beauty without Catherine Deneuve springing to mind. Famous for her roles on iconic movies such as 'Repulsion' and 'Belle de Jour', the now 70 year-old actress still looks picture...