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Retro Style

BRIDGETTE FYVIE DOESN’T just walk into a room. She sweeps in with the panache of a 1950s movie star: full skirts, scarlet-painted lips, hair coiffed into face-framing waves. In the words of Nat King Cole, she’s unforgettable.

Her fashion sense is just half the story. Fyvie, 47, is also a collector of vintage décor—Midcentury furniture and 1940s kitsch paintings—that she works into the interiors of her Holly Hills home. Fyvie is a real estate agent and owner of Shop

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