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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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.',...
Style: Brownie and Madam Lola Roftoples Mealha January 22, 2014 Shopping, Style, Vintage Some say boys don't make passes at girls with glasses, but if that were true, the forever allure of sexy librarians, bookworms, and 50s beauty icons alike wouldn't have crossed generations and nationalities as...