Everyone’s favorite curvaceous cutie was in town yesterday pimping engagement rings as the spokeswoman for Search for the World’s Best Couple, a social media contest in which couples around the world are competing in challenges such as best photos, stories, pet names, and all around mushiness to win a 22.25 carat stunner from Michael Hill Jewelers. The bling is a gorgeous princess cut diamond set in platinum with a soft half-round shank that sweeps up and splits at the shoulders to form four claws. The winning couple will be chosen mid-December. Afterward, she hit up the screening of Runway at the ICON theatre with Chicagoan and star of the film, Kanye West.

Michael Bisbee has always been fascinated by the nightlife and culinary industries so it comes at surprise that as the owner of The LGN Group he is responsible for many of Chicago’s favorite celebrity hotspots. Throughout college and during the years immediately following his graduation, Bisbee learned the ropes of the nightlife/hospitality industry by making the rounds as host, kitchen staff, bus boy, bartender and manager at numerous locations in Chicago. In 2003, Bisbee ventured into his first partnership as co-owner of Belly’s Bar & Grill (Bisbee parted ways with Belly’s in 2005). It was in October of 2005 that Bisbee took his experience from the nightlife industry that resulted in the opening of RiNo Lounge followed by Manor Nightclub, Stay Lounge and The Cedar Hotel. With The LGN Group opening a second restaurant in Spring 2011, it is safe to say that this handsome entrepreneur is on a roll.

Seeing as Chicago is credited for having the world’s first skyscraper (The ten-story Home Insurance Building that is now the LaSalle National Bank Building), it only makes sense that we have the two tallest buildings in the United States. And with tallest comes best views. And man, is the view better from the top. Yet another reason Chicago is too haute to trot.

Meals on Wheels, you found a way to make an even hauter version of Chicago Gourmet for a great cause. With all the city’s favorite chefs participating and doing what they do best-charismatically cooking for people who love food as much as they do, just add a sexy location- department store after hours, charity, casino games, cover band, young, professional crowd, no lines and voila, instant recipe for success.

On Thursday, the young, rich and fabulous (translate: Chicago’s Euro crowd with modelesque girl on arm) gathered at the River East Arts Center for Driven, a haute event honoring the new Lamborghini models and partnership with Calloway golf. The car show lined up outside in a rainbow of candy colors was nothing compared to the new Gallardo LP 570-4 Superleggera on display for guests, as well as the Gallardo Super Trofeo from Lamborghini and Blancpain’s one-make racing series in Europe. Among the cocktails and hors d’oeuvres was a preview of the Lamborghini fashion line, as well as golf simulators to perfect your swing.

Though meat and potatoes is typically a “man” meal, steak has long been seen as the entree of the refined. The perfect cut, au jous, and tenderness is as much an art as a science and though many try to emulate, few manage to perfect. These Chicago spots get pretty close to prime chops, just keep it medium rare, please.

With a colorful culinary repertoire under his toque – and a knack for technical perfection – Executive Chef Dan Tucker is part of the extraordinary team at SUSHISAMBA rio. A member of the restaurant industry since his teenage years, he was drawn to the creative freedom of the culinary world and the satisfaction of executing the complex and difficult tasks required of a chef. Dan’s culinary career began earnestly at a small restaurant in Campaign, Illinois. Rising quickly through the ranks to become the Sous Chef, he left the company and enrolled at Kendall College in Evanston. In 2006 he earned his A.A.S. in Culinary Arts as well as the prestigious Ian C. Maclean Scholarship Grant for culinary excellence. By the time he graduated, he’d already started work as a Chef de Partie at Chicago’s famed Alinea restaurant. Throughout the course of his term there, he was honored to work with some of the top chefs in the world, including Chef Grant Achatz.

The metrosexual: a portmanteau of metropolitan and heterosexual, a neologism of the 2000’s of which a post-industrial, capitalist man has a strong concern for his appearance or lifestyle. Since we all know the appearance makes the man, keep your grooming in check at these haute 5 men’s barbershops.

Much like a look book of a fashion houses, salons have quarterly collections to suit the season. Aiming to provide a service more than a one-time cut or color, Sassoon specializes in personalized hair design to create a custom look that complement bone structure and colors that suit your unique skin tone. Led by Creative Director Marilyn Harmon and Color Director Nicole Tabloff, a Northshore suburbanite who rebelled from her prim and proper upbringing to attend beauty school, these two understand the need to maintain an effortless image.