Tiffany Campbell & Andria Lessler
Words: Julie Cox
Photos: Liz Cockrum, Tiffany Campbell, etc.
Oceanside pro Julie Cox talks with Tiffany Campbell and Andria Lessler, the ladies of Villa Villa Cola Productions, shortly after the Encinitas premier of their lady surf film Dear & Yonder. Three-years in the making, the project documents all manner of women in the water and is the very first of it’s kind.
Julie Cox: Together you’re known as Villa Villa Cola Productions—what’s the background of the name?
Tiffany Campbell: A big hero of mine as a kid was Pippi Longstocking. She has this really wild, adventurous spirit and she encapsulated our feelings about skateboarding and of being really wild and free, and living on your own terms. The name of her house was Villa Villekulla and I adapted it to make it more American. At first the company was my sister, Nicole, and another girl who skated, and me. We started making zines with random stories, horoscopes and photos of us that
Photo: Liz Cockrum
