EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL

My friend and I were talking about SEO the other week and how much what you title your posts matters. I, personally, like my artsy-fartsy-er titles, such as this one. It makes sense because I love so many elements of these outfits...everything but the girl! Oh, vomit. That was terrible! Who let me type that? Well, hopefully you can see past that joke and enjoy this Tumblr-esque post celebrating my continuing lust for neutrals, muted jewel tones, layers, black and white and beanies, beanies, beanies. My favorite part of fashion week is quickly becoming the overwhelming swirl of behind-the-scenes and on-the-street action, though I do have a post or two about the collections coming your way...

For more street style inspiration, visit my Tomgirl board on Pinterest!
photos via: IOULEX, Kevin Tachman and Elle Muliarchyk for T Magazine (their "Photos of the Moment" series is a personal favorite), Tommy Ton for Style.com, The Sartorialist, Phil Oh for Vogue.com, The Locals, and An Unknown Quantity

P.S. Opening Ceremony featured the runway soundtracks for some of their favorite shows on their blog and I am totally in love with Calla's mix - check it out below! Its also available for download, natch.

SHOWTUNES: CALLA FW12 - "Prêtes à Tout" Compiled by Olivier Bobin & Yannick Grandjean by OpeningCeremony

IMAGINE ME & YOU

And now for a silly post...seeing as one of my best friends is getting married this weekend I'm celebrating her special day with a post all about my special (imaginary) day.

First up: the future husband. Joseph Altuzarra is a French-Chinese American designer who probably loves me, but doesn't realize it. Yet.

When he proposes I’m going to make this face (I’m going to have to keep my bottom eyelashes like that for months just in case):

And hopefully the ring will be this unabashedly awesome...

I'll of course look this cute hand-typing my invitations. Except I won't be a woman. That's for my seventies! And then I'll pick from an analog music assortment (maybe some choice picks from my mother's record collection...)

This image from Domino has been my ideal wedding setting for like, three years. No joke. It's perfect!

Of course I'll have to wear something fantabulous for the ceremony...

Although I might replace the hat with one of the headpieces below. The one on the left is more traditional (ha!), but I do love Traina's Givenchy horns.

This photo captures the "energy" of our honeymoon destination, wherever that may be...preferably Cartagena...

And then of course we'll have an Asian baby! Because that's how gaybies works.

Now...after all that, I have to admit that ever since I found out Charlotte Gainsbourg isn’t married I’ve been questioning how much I really want it. Lord knows there’s nothing I put more faith in than the life choices of French style icons. Stay tuned next week for posts about said friend's actual wedding!

images via Tumblr, mostly. domino tear sheet by Miguel Flores-Vianna; the typewriter pic is a Kate Spade ad; the record albums pic is via Snippet and Ink and the baby pic is from Opening Ceremony's blog.