“If every surface doesn’t have a tchotchke, are you even living?” she asks, gesturing to her living room. There is a taxidermy squirrel wearing a pearl necklace, a stack of Interview magazines from 1999, and a single roller skate painted gold.

Most lifestyle gurus beg you to declutter. Annie Rivieccio buys a second velvet ottoman just to hold the magazines she refuses to recycle.

“I don’t shop. I confiscate .”

If you scroll through your feed and see another “sad beige” nursery or a closet that looks like a waiting room, you feel it: the itch. The need for chaos, color, and clack. That is the gravitational pull of .

“I serve this at 7 PM sharp,” she says. “By 7:15, someone is crying in the bathroom about their mother. By 8, we are taking shots of Limoncello. That is entertainment .”

Annie’s Spotify is illegal in three HOA communities. It moves from 2000s club bangers (Fergie, specifically “Glamorous”) to a random deep cut of opera, to the Real Housewives theme song on repeat. She controls the AUX cord like a dictator. Do not ask for Lofi beats. You will be asked to leave. The Wardrobe (The Armor) We ask Annie how she shops. She laughs.

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Her Upper East Side (vibe) kitchen is a museum of kitsch: a leopard print espresso machine, a fridge held shut by a vintage Pucci scarf, and a crystal bowl full of nothing but lime green Altoids. “Silence is the enemy,” she tells us, pouring oat milk into a mug that reads I’m Not Yelling, I’m Italian .