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\"Little<\/a><\/div>\n

1. I love all the characters on The Sopranos<\/a>. David Chase has created some of the most memorable in cinematic history. But I’ve got to give it to my new favorite: troubled pre-teen Goth kid, little Vito. You just have to love him. Kudos to director\u00a0Timothy Van Patten<\/a>\u00a0on another great job. In his debut episode we saw chubby little V, w\/ perfect attitude & makeup, manage sitdowns w\/ 2 mob bosses – \u00a0while never giving an inch. When taunted in the school locker room little Vito<\/a> really stirred the sh*t \u00a0– by actually defecating!!! P-HEW!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Deyrolle<\/a><\/div>\n

2. In a dark, but ultra exclusive recess of sunny LA is the store that revolutionized luxury retailing:\u00a0Maxfield. The innovative concepts of the singular outpost on Melrose Ave. have been copied by exclusive stores across the globe for more than than a generation. The owner, Tommy Perse, always had IT. W\/ an incredible eye & an\u00a0attitude of complete disdain<\/a> for the customer, he is Little Vito all grown up & calling the shots. I hadn’t been to Maxfield in a while, but it is still breaking ground.. now in a very personal, all-Tommy way. A friend was in from NY & wanted to shop. At Maxfield, Tommy’s decadent curio collections currently have equal space w\/ the clothes. I’d bet most are eBay purchases marked up into the stratosphere & carefully chosen consignments from tony Melrose Place antique shops. The private fetishes of Tommy Perse<\/a> are on display & for sale: shrunken heads; vintage porn; strutting stuffed chickens wearing the most finely wrought skull jewelry imaginable, & the ultimate in hard-ons\u2014giant rock crystal dildos. All are mixed w\/ clothing from Balenciaga, Prada, Herm\u00e8s etc. I’m positive he did paid major $$$$ for his highly provocative showpieces– those primo examples of exotic cat taxidermy. The 2 huge stuffed leopards that prowl the front counters could scare lesser mortals than Roy Horn & make PETA scream. I imagine the shock value of the snarling embalmed predators is priceless to the proprietor. Deyrolle in Paris<\/a> is the place that has been quaintly doing the “Ye Olde Curiosity Shop” thing since 1831\u2014but it took Tommy Perse to bring it here – & pervert it. Anyway, my friend made a hefty purchase, and on the way out we ran into Perse\u2014now an aging boomer sporting super long white rock & roll hair & clothes. How did he greet us? True to form\u2014w\/ trademark disdain. I was always struck by his taste & nerve, although I recognize everything he’s touting now is about one thing – death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. I love all the characters on The Sopranos. David Chase has created some of the most memorable in cinematic history. But I’ve got to give it to my new favorite: troubled pre-teen Goth kid, little Vito. You just have to love him. Kudos to director\u00a0Timothy Van Patten\u00a0on another great job. In his debut episode […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,1],"tags":[7557,11338,11341,11340,11339,5235,11342],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-fashion","category-thoughts","category-uncategorized","tag-los-angeles","tag-maxfields","tag-melrose","tag-prada","tag-sopranos","tag-tere-tereba","tag-vintage-porn","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2491,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/2491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}