Vivre's chic website offers luxury items for the glam and glam-in-the-making alike.

By Alisa Welch
May 12, 2008

In Vivre’s alternate universe, days are filled with sunbathing aboard a yacht, shopping on Melrose Avenue, flying from New York to Paris wearing nothing but cashmere, and generally living in the fab lane. This high-rolling catalog-cum-website is full of the kind of fanciful if not entirely impractical items that only people with spare Benjamins purchase, such as the $2,510 tiny gold vermeil bowl by Odiot decorated with a single butterfly.

While most of Vivre’s offerings are high-end, reasonable prices for fun luxury items abound.  In the jewelry department, O Oscar by Oscar de la Renta’s dramatic oversized cocktail rings would go well with a San Tropez tan. For the budget-minded jetsetter, MICHAEL by Michael Kors' metal disk ring tunic paired with Bo'em's 'jeweled flat sandal and a pair of white denim jeans are perfect for an afternoon traipsing around Roman ruins.

The best part about Vivre is the magazine-like groupings of products based on different glam-life scenarios.  You can shop by look with multiple choices including 'Spring in the City' or 'Global Glamour,' by destination, by editor's choice, or even by company president Eva Jeanbart Lorenzotti's 'Obsessions.'

Who knows? A dose of Vivre's joie de vivre might be just the thing to take our minds off the dismal economy—at least for now.