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THE STORY

" Lola James Harper is a holistic project about art, friendship, family, slow life & sunshine. "

Rami Mekdachi - Photographer, musician, movie director, fragrance creative director and founder of Lola James Harper.

THE ROOTS

Before Lola James Harper...

A multidisciplinary artist and visionary entrepreneur, Rami Mekdachi was born in Beirut and grew up between Paris, England, and the United States.A musician, photographer, and filmmaker from an early age, he discovered the world of fragrance in the late 1990s and quickly revolutionized the industry by becoming the first to create fragrances dedicated to iconic places.

His journey began with the legendary Parisian concept store Colette and the iconic Hôtel Costes, followed by collaborations with prestigious venues such as La Réserve Genève, Hôtel Arts Barcelona, Château de Jacques Garcia, Roger Vivier, Chloé, Lacoste, and more.

In parallel, Rami pursued a prolific career as a photographer and filmmaker, working with iconic magazines like Rock & Folk and Rolling Stone, while composing and performing with various musical groups signed under labels such as Chronowax and Pias.

A FAMILY ARTISTIC ADVENTURE

Lola James Harper — The Art Band

The Mekdachi family moves through the world with a camera and a guitar in hand with a simple desire: to capture the places where life surfaces.

At the beginning Céline and Rami traveled as a duo. With Lili and Noé, the family was born, and travel became a living, shared experience. From these roads emerged songs, images, fragrances, and films. Gradually, a universe took shape: Lola James Harper.

This artistic world attracted prestigious collaborations with artists and creators across several continents: from iconic bands such as The Smashing Pumpkins to K-pop star Joshua Hong of Seventeen, or art and fashion institutions like the legendary concept store Colette, the Paris fashion museum, the Palais Galliera, galleries, studios, and unique projects with legendary brands such as Vans and Cadillac, where sensory discovery unfolds through image, music and scent alike.

At the heart of this universe stands the film WITH. Shot over fifteen years of road trips, encounters, and musical sessions, WITH is a narrative, a state of mind, a way of being in the world. A focus on connections and gestures. The film has been awarded for its cinematography, direction and music. But above all, it resonates through what it offers: an accessible reverie, an inner road trip where reality and imagination merge.

RAMI MEKDACHI

Rami Mekdachi was born in Beirut and grew up between Paris, England, and North America.

The world of music called him with a guitar, a punk-rock band and the raw joy of making noise together. Music taught him how to travel, how to speak without words, how to meet people whose language he did not know. Over the years, Rami developed other languages: photography, cinema, fragrance.

His work explores the poetry hidden in the simple gestures of everyday life. He has traveled around the world with his family, Céline, Lili, and Noé, gathering images, songs, fragrances, and stories that remind us the world inspires dreaming.

Through his films, photographs, and music, Rami seeks to convey a simple idea: in a world shaped by information, precision, and control, we should also take the time to look, smell, listen, dream, and allow ourselves to be transported by the magic and poetry of everyday life.

Together, this forms a rare sensory universe called Lola James Harper, which exudes the gentle intensity of moments that are captured without being imprisoned, and which continue to live on through the senses of the viewer, listener or reader.

His first feature film WITH was awarded for its cinematography, direction, and original score, affirming the scope of his artistic voice, through which he shares his approach to life: “Life is a song we play together.”

LILI MEKDACHI

Through music, cinema, dance and photography, Lili Mekdachi practices the arts and crosses disciplines in the spirit of freedom that defines her family.

A multidisciplinary artist and contemporary dancer trained at the prestigious Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London after several years at the Paris Conservatory, Lili brings to her photography a choreographic sensitivity, an instinctive relationship to space, balance, and movement dynamics.

As a filmmaker, she was nominated at the Cannes Film Awards for her first short film CRAFT & POWDER and is currently developing her first feature film.

As a composer, she co-created the award-winning original score for WITH and has collaborated with internationally renowned artists Joshua of Seventeen.

As a founding member of Lola James Harper, Lili has traveled around the world with her family, shaping her vision and compositional style.

What defines her visual writing style on her argentic film camera is her singular ability to capture the precise moment when reality becomes cinematic. Her images carry a gentle tension, an equilibrium of bodies, colors, light, and atmosphere, with a choreography that remains entirely organic and natural.

A key element of her visual universe is her relationship with music. Lili enjoys titling her photographs with references to songs from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, pop, rock, new wave, melodies that continue to shape generations. These titles are her way of embedding music within the image.

Her photography floats between reality and reverie, like scenes from a film one feels they have already lived.

NOÉ MEKDACHI

A visual artist, musician, producer and athlete, for many years Noé Mekdachi has developed a physical, rhythmic, and sensory approach to creation.

Trained at the prestigious Istituto Marangoni, he builds a transversal artistic language nourished by image, sound, movement, and performance.

As a founding member of Lola James Harper, he has traveled around the world with his family, instilled in him a particular sensitivity to time, color, and the vibration of spaces.

Always engaged in high-level sports practice, Noé conceives creation as a space of precision, endurance, and listening. Sport, like music, hones his innate relationship to rhythm, breath, tension, and balance, qualities that directly infuse his visual work.

He has long shaped the visual, graphic, and color identity of Lola James Harper and is notably the creator of the iconic Palm Tree logo.

Alongside his visual work, Noé is an award-winning drummer, composer, and producer. Alongside Rami and Lili Mekdachi, he composed and performed the original score for WITH. He currently collaborates with an eclectic group of artists, developing music where rhythm, texture, and emotion dialogue with image.

Drawing from a multitude of photographic archives by his family, Noé assembles images with the precision of a film editor. For him, a sequence is built through its color palette, image by image, emotion by emotion, sensation by sensation, deeply embodied and faithful to the spirit of Lola James Harper.