Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 26, because we love to snoop

By Courtney Shea | June 15, 2012

By Courtney Shea | 06/15/2012

By Courtney Shea

Sylvia Mantella’s closet blushes with pink gowns, pink heels and pink clutches. She likes red kimonos and black knee-high boots, too, but pink is the colour that best flatters her big blond mane and frosty blue eyes. Mantella, whose couture addiction is funded by her husband’s family-owned development company, treks to New York and Paris shows and runs her own charity fashion events in Toronto with fellow designer devotee Suzanne Rogers.

A closet that’s worth more than the average house is undeniably a luxury reserved for the one per cent, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us don’t enjoy sneaking a peek, which is what Toronto-based childhood friends Erin Kleinberg and Stephanie Mark were counting on when they launched the blog The Coveteur last year. The pair are fashion world bona fides—Kleinberg runs her own small fashion label and Mark works as a stylist—which helped them coax their cameras into the homes of subjects like Mantella, Rogers (the kind of person who buys two Jil Sander runway 2011 skirts as closet dressing), Jeanne Beker (who owns custom-made cowgirl boots), Nicky Hilton (who’s obsessed with monogramming) and Khloé Kardashian (who, no surprise, has a weakness for leopard print). On the blog, they take us on a tour of each person’s fashion collection, every item photographed like a precious art object. In a year, they’ve featured more than 100 of the rich and stylish, and have spun their success into consulting gigs for Chanel and Bulgari and editorial work for Vogue. Their blog has become the ultimate stamp of fashion world cred—people beg to be Coveteured.

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Sylvia Mantella, closet case — (Image: Courtesy of The Coveteur/Kathi Z.)

Mantella is a fan of knee-high boots — (Image: Courtesy of The Coveteur/Kathi Z.)

Balmain skinny pants — (Image: Courtesy of The Coveteur/Kathi Z.)

Stilettos, stilettos and more stilettos — (Image: Courtesy of The Coveteur/Kathi Z.)

Alexander McQueen kimono — (Image: Courtesy of The Coveteur/Kathi Z.)

Hermès bags — (Image: Courtesy of The Coveteur/Kathi Z.)

A room for Mantella’s ball gowns — (Image: Courtesy of The Coveteur/Kathi Z.)

Mantella wore this Oscar de la Renta gown to the Brazilian Ball — (Image: Courtesy of The Coveteur/Kathi Z.)

She bought this Marchesa gown at New York fashion week — (Image: Courtesy of The Coveteur/Kathi Z.)

(Image: Courtesy of The Coveteur/Kathi Z.)

3 thoughts on “Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 26, because we love to snoop”

JFreed says:

July 21, 2012 at 11:41 am

ok .. this is fashion style at its finest! who goes from a pair of jeans to an inasnae ball gown so effortlessly.. in this city like her theres very.. . love to see somone real and beautiful representng toronto finally!
JFreed says:

July 21, 2012 at 11:43 am

let me finish that sentence,
theres very few PEOPLE i meant. but thats obvious
darren blane says:

November 21, 2012 at 10:30 am

Great representation of Toronto. shes beautfiul and would like to see more

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Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 26, because we love to snoop

3 thoughts on “Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 26, because we love to snoop”

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