Gorgeous Heeled

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Gorgeous Heeled

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Look Alive: Fashionistas Get Game as Taxidermy Trend Lives On… And On (thepoliticker.observer)

On Saturday, the 28-year-old fashion designer Divya Anantharaman struck a coy
pose in the doorway of her kitchen. “I’m going to take the bird out of the
fridge so it gets to room temperature,” she breathed, as if the “bird” were
perhaps a roasted turkey, and not a pair of dead finches in a Zip-loc bag.

When she’s not traveling for her day job as a shoe designer for women and
tweens, Ms. Anantharaman spends her weekends doing taxidermy. She answered the
door in high-waisted black shorts, oversize glasses studded with rhinestones,
sparkly green stick-on fingernails and bare feet—a bit of Brooklyn, where she
lives, meets Miami, where she grew up. Ms. Anantharaman, who is dark-skinned,
curvy and full-lipped, is gorgeous enough to pull this garish combination
off—even as she clears a model of a human skeleton from the dining room table.
“Last night I had some friends over and we were going to do taxidermy stuff,
but we ended up just playing with my anatomy model,” she apologized.

Ms. Anantharaman has stuffed about 50 animals, and collected many more off
eBay and from friends, who know that animal remains make an ideal house ...

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