Weather the storm

Alexandra Valenti and the girls from Sugarhigh+Lovestoned inhabit another world... A Texas summer-storm world where everything is enchanted and eerie, windswept and whiskey, light-leaked and light-hearted. 

And, after the mercury dropped to three degrees this morning in the southern part of the southern hemisphere, I really, really want to join them. 

Alexandra Valenti Photography

Model: Lauryn Holmquist

Stylist: Chloe Chippendale

Clothing: Sugarhigh + Lovestoned

Jewellery: Heyoka Leather and Torchlight

Accesories: Laced with Romance

Champagne skies

I know everyone gets up to the same thing at around 4pm on a workday, or when idle at the train station, or when waiting for someone to get dressed to go out -- the mind starts to wander. 

If I'm lucky, my mind wanders into a sketchbook. If my wallet is unlucky, my little clicking fingers wander into online shopping worlds of indescribable delights. And Wilmington, NC-based boutique Edge of Urge is definitely one of those online shopping worlds... 

Just check out the effortless, serene lookbook above.  

And not only that, they stock Blood is the New Black, a new favourite of mine... my favourite piece here, and the absolutely bangin' Joshua Tree dress seen above here. 

And not to forget, those shoes....

Along for the ride...

Lovecats. Erin Wasson for One Teaspoon

via Oracle Fox

Ode to Patti

I'm often making people uncomfortable because I desperately want to talk about the book I'm reading at the time -- regardless of whether they've read it or not -- and it's like an embarrassing compulsion that I cannot get a handle on. I can tell by the blank, fifty-yard stare that comes on that people don't want to hear about it, but I've got to let them know about the genius of whatever-book-I'm-currently-reading.
Just Kids by Patti Smith was, by far and justifiably so, one of those books that I awkwardly pushed on people in conversation. For me, it opened up a whole new level of Patti Smith as an artist, as a performer, as a person. I think it also genuinely changed the way I think about a lot of things, including art and the importance of those we love and loving what we do.
That said, how's this tribute to the 'Godmother of Punk' herself?

Helmut Magazine
Model: Anna Albrekht
Stylist: Bex Sheers
Photographer: Darren McDonaldvia fgr