Visions at the Chelsea

Photography: Amanda Leigh Smith

Model: Skye Sengelmann

Stylist: Tami Snodgrass

Imagine slipping into the lobby of the old Chelsea Hotel, leaning up against a peeling, smoke-stained wall clutching your chai tea and watching as the wandering, sexy, wild+eyed musicians walk past you in their dusty desert jackets, slung-back guitars, messy hair, and dirty jeans. You stare right into their wild eyes as they flash you a big bright, crazy, toothy smile that you will keep with you for the rest of your life. You are the girl they see out of the corner of their eye......I think it might of been the velvet, but then again, no one knows for sure...

via Sugarhigh+Lovestoned blog

Talk about the dream team. Another velvet-mystic-shimmering-drifter-groupie vision realised by the Sugarhigh+Lovestoned ladies for their winter collection launch. And what's more -- and I know I've explained my feelings about velvet in no uncertain terms -- there is so much velvet. And rings and sparkling things and those platform boots... It's just another, beautiful time. 

Anyway, this shoot is accompanying their winter collection launch party in Portland and which, if I lived in America, I would be driving a long way to be at...