Lola Mignot’s Latest Surf Edit: De Color A Flor

Lola, projected. 

World-renowned Vans longboarder Lola Mignot puts the free in freesurfer: born in Paris but raised in Mexico since the age of three, Mignot spent her early childhood years sailing to Tahiti and living there for three years. To this day, she’s almost always on the go, travelling with her girlfriends, surfing the Duct Tape Invitationals, or visiting her incredibly widespread family members who are scattered across the globe. 

Though she’s not one for competing (and who can blame her?) surfing represents another in a long list of creative outlets for Mignot, so when Mignot graces us with documentation of her latest surf adventures, it’s reflected in every frame. Recently, Mignot shared her latest edit with the world.

De Color A Flor poster outside of Oblivion. 

At less than 6 minutes long, De Color A Flor functions as a mosaic of Mignot’s style and spirit, including the names in the credits. Directed by Lola herself and LA-based art director Nicolas Bohorquez, the colorful surf edit is filmed and edited by Sayulita-based surf filmmaker Alex Patrick. 

De Color a Flor, meaning “from color to flower” in Spanish, is an energetic assemblage of VHS clips, flowers in motion, and graceful cross-stepping in glassy surf. Outside of surfing, Lola dances, runs her jewelry brand Yumi, and occasionally competes, but at the end of the day, she surfs for the love of it, and De Color a Flor is the living representation of that.

Lola, doing a stylish bottom turn on camera.

The premiere for De Color a Flor, hosted at Oblivion in Los Angeles, was soaked in creativity and joy, reflecting Lola’s versatile personality and interests. “About 150 friends, artists, surfers, and neighbors filled the space early and stayed all night,” Mignot said. “The film came together between Mexico City and Oaxaca with Nico and Alex — just the three of us dreaming, filming, and figuring it out as we went. What started over tostadas became this wild, colorful thing. 

After our 20th cut, it finally felt ready — and right then, Grady offered up Oblivion. We said yes, threw in fish tacos, vinyl cumbia, and a raffle, and everything flowed from there.”

Standing room only.

Just one day before the premiere, Mignot and company found a taco truck from Mazatlán to cater for the event, and the rest was history. “Friends helped hang banderitas, snap photos, and shoot VHS,” Mignot told us. “Stephanie and Carlos kicked off the night with a cumbia set, Kona beers disappeared fast, and after the film, Gio opened the dance floor. The señoras from the taco truck even jumped into dance,” Mignot laughed. 

The premiere also included a raffle of Lola’s La Lola board from Unhinged (Dane Peterson) and a July wetsuit to raise money for CHIRLA. Everyone played trivia for Vans giveaways, partied, and danced into the night. “It felt more like a block party than a premiere,” Lola said, “Big love to Grady and Mackenzie — still riding the wave.”

The vibes were high all night.