{"id":1673,"date":"2009-06-10T10:57:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T17:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/06\/top-hat-of-couture\/"},"modified":"2009-06-10T10:57:54","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T17:57:54","slug":"top-hat-of-couture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/10\/top-hat-of-couture\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Hat of Couture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2009\/style\/sultan-stains\" target=\"_blank\">from the NY Observer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: normal; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2009\/style\/sultan-stains\" style=\"color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none\">The Sultan of Stains<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: normal; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2009\/style\/sultan-stains\" style=\"color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none\"><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial; line-height: normal; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/author\/spencer-morgan\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #2843b5; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none\" alt=\"Home page of Spencer Morgan\">Spencer Morgan<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>John Mahdessian prefers not to be called a dry cleaner.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/files\/article\/morganmadamepaulette.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"146\" width=\"218\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/>\u201cThat\u2019s a fuckin\u2019 insult,\u201d he said, between pulls off a Marlboro Light on a recently Sunday morning. \u201cThat\u2019s like calling a world-renowned surgeon a doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We were outside the nail salon next door to the Madame Paulette flagship, first opened by Mr. Mahdessian\u2019s great-uncle Andy as a mom-and-pop dry cleaner in 1958, when it was named for Andy\u2019s wife, a French gal who worked as the seamstress. It recently underwent a massive $500,000 renovation and now occupies half the block.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mahdessian, 43, is president of what is now called the Madame Paulette Organization, \u201cthe world\u2019s leading custom couture cleaner.\u201d The jovial, self-described \u201celigible bachelor with a spotless reputation\u201d has been married to his business since taking the reins from his father, Noubar, 20 years ago. (\u201cHe thinks girls are like shirts: You have to change them every two weeks,\u201d Noubar said wryly.)<\/p>\n<p>John works six days a week. Sundays he treats himself to a mani-pedi and a massage.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2009\/style\/sultan-stains\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Observer.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the NY Observer The Sultan of Stains By\u00a0Spencer Morgan John Mahdessian prefers not to be called a dry cleaner. \u201cThat\u2019s a fuckin\u2019 insult,\u201d he said, between pulls off a Marlboro Light on a recently Sunday morning. \u201cThat\u2019s like calling a world-renowned surgeon a doctor.\u201d We were outside the nail salon next door to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}