☽ Star mystic ☾

Images from: Tentative Decisions etsy, Davis Ayer, tumblr, Planet Blue, Melancine Moon, Pamela Love.

Edge of Urge X Pony Gold

Stoked on this fun little project with Edge of Urge... the creative masterminds over there in NY have incorporated some of my illustrations into a mini-shoot for their homepage -- linking up the ideas and inspiration between drawings and photos... Love it!

Now/Here

Photography: Bryan Rodner Carr and Francis Kmiecik
Models: Kylie Cusick and Caroline Pires
Makeup: Deb Chung
Hair: Traci Trace Henningsen
Styling: Kayti O'Connell and Kelsey Tudor

Out here on the perimeter there are no stars 

Out here we is stoned, immaculate.

 Capturing the desolate, menacing beauty of the desert -- and looking to me like a line straight out of Jim Morrison's own notebook -- Mate Vintage's highly-anticipated Now/Here lookbook has wrangled together some of the best independent designers... The ones who are truly nailing it. 
Think the likes of Ax and Apple, Spell and the Gypsy Collective, Sugarhigh+Lovestoned, Spanish Moss and, of course, the girls behind Mate Vintage as well.
I've been ebaying and googling like mad for a 'large crescent moon necklace' (or variations on that search term) to no avail... and yet, here it is. The exact thing I was after. Thanks Kayti and Kelsey for bringing that one to light!  
Definite style standouts: doubling up on the crescent Nyx Necklaces, suede bras and suede-fringed shorts, vintage tees with wings or wolves, Spanish Moss bells and Sugarhigh+Lovestoned's Be Here Now top. 

Also, there's a little bit of my logo-design handiwork on that last image, and over on Mate Vintage's site...

Wild minds

All those things our hands are capable of. The wonders.

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...