I was in a store on Lexington Avenue, New York City last weekend and at the end of a row of pop culture clutter I spied a worn, curled-up photo that I can remember staring at morning after morning on my way to school.
It was probably 1982-83. The place? The newsagent at Rutherford House by the Wellington Railway Station. The said nude woman and accompanying snake hung deliciously in the main window, clearly put there to tease hundreds of passing pubescent private school boys.
I later found out that the 'girl' I had stared at every morning was Nastassja Kinski (a German-born, American-based model and actress). And that the photo was taken by the late Richard Avedon in 1981. The reptile sadly remains nameless.
Take a belated bow all three of you.
Pee
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