In Pictures: Top Spots to See A Model Source Forbes.com Travel
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What's the tip-off that you've stumbled into a supermodel bar--apart, that is, from the presence of gorgeous women? Could be the pomegranate martinis.
"Models love everything that is low-calorie, or has some sort of beauty benefit," explains Noah Tepperberg, co-founder and partner of the Strategic Group, which runs hot spots like Marquee in New York City and Dune in Southampton, N.Y. "Right now, they're drinking a lot of pomegranate juice because of the health benefits."
Kiss heroin-chic goodbye. In model-magnet cities like New York and Paris, the new generation of supes, like Gemma Ward, Adriana Lima and Darla Baker, are still spending nights out at the hippest clubs, restaurants and bars--but they're trying to reconcile their cocktailing with maintaining a "healthy lifestyle."
In Pictures: Best Model-Scouting Spots
Another tip-off: Décor. In New York City, Runway, which opened in April, boasts an illuminated catwalk reminiscent of those found in Fashion Week's tents. Grab a seat on one of the banquettes lining the runway and see if you can match some of the faces in the crowd to their head shots on the wall.
Of course, models do not live on booze alone. They must shop. Certain boutiques are known to be model-magnates. In Manhattan's West Village, for example, you'd do well to visit Butik, owned by supermodel Helena Christensen. It stocks everything from an eponymous line of clothing to antique treasures and Parisian chocolates, among other attractants.
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In Paris, during Fashion Week and all year round, models shop in the neighborhood of Le Marais, scouring the racks at Azzedina Alaia, taking a breather at Murano Urban Resort for a cocktail (the bar stocks more than 130 kinds of vodka) or warming their tiny wan hands at the lobby's "endless" fireplace.
Just a Eurostar-ride away in London, old-timers like Kate Moss spend their nights at the Cuckoo Club. The resident DJs spin rock classics from The Rolling Stones to The Stone Roses. The V.I.P room upstairs--decked out in sumptuous purple fabric-lined mahogany banquettes--hosts many of London's Fashion Week after-parties.
Nobu London, like other Nobus around the globe, draws fashion gliteratti, including Nadja Auermann and the ageless, if leathery, Elle McPherson.
So there's New York, Paris and London ... all obviously fashionable cities. Well, with smaller fashion weeks popping up in spots from San Francisco to Mumbai, the net for model sightings is being cast wider and wider.
Take Miami, for instance. Once simply a party palace for glamour girls and Playboy bunnies taking a break from Los Angeles, Art Basel and other high-brow events are now bringing jetsetters from New York and London down for extended weekends. In fact, Miami is currently hosting its very own fashion week, featuring glamour-gown designers Badgley Mischka.
Nicola Siervo, owner of two of Miami's most-talked-about spots, Italian restaurant Quattro Gastronomia Italiana and nightclub Mokai, says that models like his venues' "small and intimate feel that attracts a young and hip crowd." Siervo's Miami guests have included Alessandra Ambrosio, Gisele Bundchen and Karolina Kurkova.
But as for Pittsburgh? Well ... maybe someday.
In Pictures: Best Model-Scouting Spots
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