Released From Love (RFL) is the contemporary, luxury jewellery label of photographer Hannah Roche and philosopher Lachlan Malone.
Hannah and Lachlan fell in love after meeting at an underground punk show Lachlan was playing at. In the years following they moved to Sydney and Hannah worked as a fashion photographer for Bassike, Christopher Esber, Chanel and Net-A-Porter, while Lachlan worked as an avant-garde artist completing a PhD in Culture, Language and Philosophy.
Together, Hannah and Lachlan learned fine jewellery at Australia’s oldest craft institute in order to handmake one another’s wedding bands and bespoke pieces for themselves and their friends to wear to their wedding. As their love for timeless design grew, the couple founded RFL on their one year wedding anniversary. RFL embodies Hannah’s and Lachlan’s relationship - Hannah’s emphasis on refined, classic pieces and Lachlan’s love of criticality and the avant-garde. Together, they represent this story of contrasts with their signature aesthetic of contradiction - perfect meets imperfect, brutalist meets organic, minimal meets maximal.