A field guide to looking the part

Live beyond
your means.

A curated register of the rooms, streets, and terraces of New York, London, and Miami where you may convincingly appear wealthy. Dress the part. Get the photo. Post the LARP.

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No actual wealth required.

Balthazar✦Central Park Reservoir Path✦Cipriani Downtown✦Lever House Restaurant✦Sant Ambroeus✦Bluebird Chelsea✦Annabel's✦Brown's Hotel✦The Langham London✦Rusty Pelican✦Harvey Nichols✦Baccarat Hotel New York✦The Plaza Hotel Lobby✦Mount Street✦The St. Regis New York✦The Wolseley✦The Plaza Hotel✦Bergdorf Goodman Ground Floor✦

Balthazar✦Central Park Reservoir Path✦Cipriani Downtown✦Lever House Restaurant✦Sant Ambroeus✦Bluebird Chelsea✦Annabel's✦Brown's Hotel✦The Langham London✦Rusty Pelican✦Harvey Nichols✦Baccarat Hotel New York✦The Plaza Hotel Lobby✦Mount Street✦The St. Regis New York✦The Wolseley✦The Plaza Hotel✦Bergdorf Goodman Ground Floor✦

Chapter One · The Habitats

Choose your specimen.

Three cities. Three characters. Each plate records where the species gathers, what it wears, and what it says.

New York skyline

United States

New York

The Manhattanite

Habitat: Madison Ave · The Carlyle
Plumage: Quiet-luxury neutrals
Call: “We summer in Amagansett.”

56 spots · 0 events

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London skyline

United Kingdom

London

The Sloane

Habitat: Mayfair · Sloane Street
Plumage: Inherited tweed, good wellies
Call: “A place in the Cotswolds.”

50 spots · 0 events

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Miami skyline

United States

Miami

The Collector

Habitat: Faena · The Setai
Plumage: Linen. No socks.
Call: “Basel was quieter this year.”

33 spots · 1 events

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Chapter Two · The Method

I.

Choose your habitat

Pick a city and a spot from the register. Every entry is photogenic, plausible, and open to the public.

II.

Dress the part

Each plate notes the local plumage. Commit to the character — halfway is how you get caught.

III.

Post the LARP

Get the photo, file it to the feed, and climb the standings. Nobody needs to know.

Chapter Three · The Society Pages

Appendices & apparatus.

LARP Mode

The Portfolio

A trading desk that exists to be photographed over your shoulder.

The Standings

The Leaderboard

Who is topping the city this week, and where they are spending their afternoons.

Assignments

The Challenges

Weekly field exercises. Complete them in character, submit the evidence.

Accept a challenge

The Edit

@wheretolarp

Behind the scenes, city drops, and the daily LARP edit — straight to the feed.

Nobody needs to know.

Membership is free, the lifestyle is borrowed, and the photographs are forever. The Society is now accepting new characters.

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