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...
Spaces: Arte Assinada Lola Roftoples Mealha June 20, 2014 Male of the Species, Products, Shopping, Spaces, Style Last week has been spent away from London, in my native Lisbon. After three years in the Big Smoke, I have to say the river-facing cobbled streets I used to ramble through look somewhat foreign now -...
My Humble Abode: Hannah Metz,designer and photographer Lola Roftoples Mealha June 6, 2014 My Humble Abode, Spaces, Style, Vintage Upon stumbling into Hannah Kristina Metz's work, one cannot but think of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Her photography - in which she features as her own strawberry-blonde muse - is a perfect mix of...
Products: My Summer Essentials Lola Roftoples Mealha June 3, 2014 In The Bag, Products, Shopping, Style As I look through the window today, gazing at the leaves of my neighbour tree becoming greener and greener with each speck of rain, it seems slightly odd to be even remotely contemplating summertime, sultry...
Style: Pretty in Print Lola Roftoples Mealha May 21, 2014 My Humble Abode, Shopping, Style A few years ago, whilst browsing a favourite design blog, I came across Rifle Paper Co. Although by then still a newborn, one could foresee a very bright future for this brand and its owners - illustrator...
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...
Spaces: Zinc + Lola Roftoples Mealha April 3, 2014 Cities, My Humble Abode, Shopping, Spaces, Style, Vintage, Wellington After a three day stint in Sydney - where I've left a sizeable piece of my heart and a palpable desire to return - I've been spending the last couple of weeks in Wellington, New Zealand, where a mixture of...
Style: Peekaboo Vintage Lola Roftoples Mealha March 11, 2014 Cities, London, Shopping, Style, Vintage Once an advocate of clean and minimal, preferably something Helmut Lang, and most certainly black, a few years ago I've traded in my first sartorial love for a new one: the unique appeal of vintage...
Style: Dear Diary… Lola Roftoples Mealha March 5, 2014 Products, Shopping, Style The gardeners of the soul - commonly known as psychologists - have long been advocates of the somewhat lost art of penning one's thoughts into paper. Clearing mind clutter is indeed one of the best ways to...