If the Coveteur wasn’t a website but an alcoholic beverage, it would be vintage brandy in a crystal snifter with just a touch of gold edging on the rim. Elegant and yet, both an understatement and an overstatement, saying so much and saying nothing at all, a sonnet of details. Or allow me to put it [...] ...
New York has the Oak Room at The Plaza. Chicago has the Coq D’Or at The Drake Hotel. And Los Angeles has… The Spare Room at the Roosevelt. Oozing a sense of glamour and exclusivity while maintaining a dignity that so many other Hollywood venues lack, the Spare Room invites you to have a classic [...] ...
Picture this: you’re at a party. The DJ blows. The crowd is worse. Someone in your group of friends gets the courage to ask the DJ to please, please, play something else. She is met with nothing but attitude and returns to the group, mildly humiliated. We’ve all lived through that (shudder). However, with these six Angeleno [...] ...
She’s hip, she’s quirky, she’s no slave to Hollywood and damn, those blue eyes and that those bangs. In case you’re not caught up to speed, everything Zooey Deschanel touches turns to gold. From her adorable presence in Yes Man, to her indie-cred-boosting appeal in 500 Days of Summer, and her wildly popular indie duo [...] ...
I, for one, have never arisen at 7AM to go down to the local market in a village in Tuscany. However, after dining once at SBE’s newest addition Mercato di Vetro, I feel as though I have accomplished this through some remarkable transport in time and space. The restaurant is composed of wood and glass: enormous [...] ...
If you have ever looked at your man or your man-friend and thought, “he just looks too… nice,” the Alexander Wang Fall 2011 collection for men is here to help. Deliciously skittish and tense, wrapped up in an underground metropolitan flavor, Alexander Wang gives men a look that reeks of both the street urchin and [...] ...
All I ask is that no one act surprised at the termination of Lively and Leo’s relationship. If anything, we should act surprised that it lasted so long, a total of five months. It would be nice if their reps didn’t assert that they “remain friends” as it sounds so empty and meaningless, and even [...] ...
BJ Panda Bear is a representative of a generation, a mindset, an energy, a lifestyle. He’s Bob Dylan meets Frank O’Hara meets a hybrid of Versace and Gaultier. He’s a one man show of blogs that look more like critical documents appraising society mixed with fearless reveals and confessions of his own personal life. His [...] ...
If you have ever looked at a crisp, tailored Chanel suit and thought “I love that so much I want to consume it, body and soul,” then the bell tolls, my friend, and it tolls for thee. Get yourself over to the corner of 9th and Main street, also known as the heart of the [...] ...
