[STREET STYLE] SAINT LAURENT NYC

I feel like I'm starting to notice more people wearing floppy wide-brim hats nowadays, but maybe it's not necessarily appropriate to put them in the context of Hedi Slimane's influence. What I love so much about this outfit is the way it puts a personal spin on the takeaway trend from Slimane's debut collection for YSL/SLP, eschewing the bohemian rockstar vibe as played up by Gwen Stefani in Vogue and embracing the Annie Hall end of the women's suiting spectrum (still with a rockstar twist), as more befits the East Coast. So Saint Laurent NYC, no? Audrey was also recently photographed by The Sartorialist, looking equally as amazing!

[STREET STYLE] WINNING STREAKS

And for today, some lady street style...what really intrigues me about this woman is her total beauty look - the streaks of gray with the lucite frames, not to mention those lips! She looks like she could kick some ass, no? Or maybe like the Hollywood action-star version of Rachel Maddow! Like this post? Check out some other ladies here and here.

[STREET STYLE] BLACK TO THE FUTURE

Ok, I couldn't resist the title, so sue me. It is a very futuristic look, no? I love the cropped double-breasted jacket with the long, slightly sheer shirt. His look is like a cross between this lady and this dude - and those boots are awesome. Shot on the Upper East Side, in case you were wondering...

[STREET STYLE] FADE TO BLACK

Oh, hey, y'all! Guess who ran into a real live model in Williamsburg? This guy! (Thank God the "normals" are artfully blurred in the background - I don't even know how they got out of their cages.) I'm in love with this shot for a slew of reasons, the least of which is that it looks like she travels around with her own wind machine. She was really sensational to work with for five minutes in the street; professional models are professionals for a reason, apparently. Her outfit speaks to a lot of what I've been thinking about regarding my personal wardrobe since arriving in NYC. I've done a lot of window shopping because, wait for it - I love clothes - and have felt inspired to pare things down and dial back the effort until my look is pretty much a uniform. Part of it is economical - the city is expensive as crap and having a few pieces in the most basic hues that I can wear every other day and, let's be honest, just Febreze when they get stank, would be great. Black is also already the uniform of a lot of sexy cool people and I want to learn their secret handshake.

Also also, I got a little stir crazy this weekend (staying in to save money, sexy!) and gave the blog a facelift. Not that there was anything wrong with the incredible art by Jordan Owens, but when design majors go unemployed...plus, I finally got a dot com!

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SO LONG, COUNTRY ROAD

Posts have been a little text-lite lately, due in part to how lazy I am and partly to how hard that makes it for me to type very much. Sorry about that! I know my readers appreciate a well thought-out post with insights, humor and references to gay things and so I’ve packed all of those things into this post PLUS a complementary year-long subscription to More (the magazine for women over forty!)

I have some big blog news to share with y’all that I've been withholding 'til I had this most perfectly introspective pose worked out. Drumroll please: I'm moving to New York! I’m not sure what to expect, but I expect it will be just like Sex and the City meets Friends. I don’t have a new job to tell you all about, or even a new apartment from which to Instagram my breakfasts, but I have some kind friends who have agreed to open their doors to me while I try and land on my feet. What more could a young man ask for? Except for an older gentleman suitor who wants to keep me so blinged out I feel like Trina. Joke! Joke?

It’s my goal to continue growing this blog and I hope that New York offers me more collaborators, more compelling content and, of course, more readers! Hopefully you’re as excited as I am to see how just how ridiculous my outfits get, what color poo I’ll scribble on pictures of my first and last lunch at Balthazar and how I “un-decorate” the walls of the abandoned car out of which I’ll be living using only all of the skills I’ve learned in the last year and old gum. And just in case you thought I was too busy “preparing” for this move that’s only two weeks away to keep my head in the proverbial game of style blogging: here I'm wearing my new vintage Kenneth Cole boots that are litrahlly so cute I could feed myself to a bear.

photos Joel Codiamat