last saturday we hiked into a vague rainbow in joshua tree+lay in the santa monica night sand before cosy-ing up in coach to wake up red eyed at jfk:

"today was a good day."
-ice cube

archives: from one moon mama to another, 16 years of faithful endeavoring.

gayatri.
full moon: 1996.
nicole. 1996.
+me on nicoles amazing old volvo. 1996
(in my old vintage levi's+first turquiose)
old thelma+louise shot.
in rachels impala.
2001.
my first fashion shoot with cedez.
(what got me hired at NYLON in 2001)
15..."it was fun!"
end of the year photo one report.
(+still not retiring.)
paris. 1994.
(the first foto i was proud of. )
first self portraits.
1994.
(guess i would've been a teen blogger after all)
hippie halloween.
1994.
+lastly,
just this little picture of one alexander wang (as j.Lo in a missoni onesie)
chelsea gayboy party: 2004.

i've been working on this graduate school application for awhile now. as part of the prep work, i've been looking back through+organizing the archives of the 16 years of my very documented life...
i've got LOADS more where this came from but i figured-given that i blasted this jam with words yesterday-i should probs put up some fotos to balance it out.

hope you like'em..

now back to writing/synthesizing.
xL

she is the muse to my best pop melody.

my dear darling gals at COURT are living the dream...
designing the perfect denim to cover the covetable asses of the world.

we had a meeting about me shooting their lookbook towards the end of summer+started brain storming concepts...but as so often happens scheduling got in the way and our city shoot didn't come to fruition...so as i was gearing up for our western adventures i suggested that they just give us some jeans to go and we'd see if magic could be made. i mean mercedez has been my muse for 12 years, so how could it go wrong?!

we shot from new mexico to the mojave to vegas to big sur...
+while there were plenty of awkward quick changes in the car...the experience was perfection--probably my favorite way to shoot fashion: having a blast--rainbow chasing through parking lots in vegas, smoke bomb experiments, climbing joshua trees in a head dress (not recommended actually), and countless other fortuitous friendly fashionable moments.

COURT jeans are available at COURT SHOP on mulberry...so go get your high waisters, dreamy bells, skinnies and sweetassed awesome on pronto!!

i promise you'll thank me later;)

we lean on each other to eat the wind.

my my, it's been awhile.

here are some of my latest scans-mostly from the grande tour of oh ten with a smattering of summer+morocco thrown in.

i hope you enjoy them...and please feel free to comment on favorites or least interesting shots--y'all know how i LOVE feedback. (+especially cause i've got my grad school deadline coming up and am trying to get the most solid grouping together...so please don't be shy;)

besos.
xL