Elisa Marshall and Ben Sormonte are a team in practically every sense of the word. Partners in love and business, the charming couple are the pair behind SoHo’s chicest new bakery, Maman. A light and airy space where the brioche and chouquettes runneth over, the cafe and bakery offers...
Read moreSucculents are practically synonymous with Southern California. The spear-like points of agaves, the green bloom of aeoniums, the red floral spears rising from aloe. Whether you’re at a backyard LA BBQ or in the middle of the Mojave, these plants are like familiar friends, as ubiquitous as palm trees...
Read moreThe floor is littered with open tubes of paint, half-empty aerosol cans, pliers, protractors. It is a horizontal chaos, the aftermath of an artist’s process just before the work is moved from its messier origins and placed on a clean gallery wall, all the spills and sweat left on swaths...
Read moreIn just three short years, LA native Kelsey Harper, the eyes and heart behind Flower Girl Los Angeles, has created something of a floral dynasty on the West Coast. Her bespoke arrangements and beatific crowns (no dynasty is complete without one, surely) have made their way into the halls...
Read moreStoking the fires of our collective cravings since 2011, The Coveteur has quickly become one of the most exceptional fashion blogs out there. Founded by Jake Rosenberg, Stephanie Mark, and Erin Kleinberg, the site dives deep into the closets of some of the world’s prominent tastemakers. With a pop and...
Read moreThere is an arresting recklessness to photographer Cara Stricker’s work, an honesty that finds beauty not in perfection, but in the vitality and realness of simply being alive. In an industry that can too often hide behind an overdone, over-retouched, over out-of-touch facade, Stricker manages to breathe fresh, young air...
Read moreIn 2009, LA-based Chiara Ferragni launched her now infamous blog, The Blonde Salad. Just ahead of the trend, the site quickly became one of the most successful, and its casual but well styled images would soon send Ferrangi all over the world, traveling the fashion circuit and posing on...
Read moreThere are people out there in the world that make dressing look effortless, no matter what the occasion. Amsterdam-based fashion blogger Negin Mirsalehi falls into that category. Whether she’s traveling the globe for fashion week or taking a hike in the Netherlandish woods, Mirsalehi looks fashionably fit for the...
Read moreThe internet abounds with guidance for all the gents out there who want to know what they should be wearing, listening to, where they should be going for dinner, vacations. Those who transmit this valuable information are the go-betweens, the cultural aficionados who are able to digest what’s out...
Read moreThere are some people out there destined to lead the masses, to kindly hold them by the hand and guide them towards the better. These are the arbiters of great taste, the early adapters, the ones who are able to see what’s coming down the cultural pipeline and predict...
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