“I know that when shopping for clothing, I’m just not happy unless the décor involves taxidermy chickens dressed in Edwardian formalwear. Maxfield is good enough to provide these…and two other elements that have come to symbolize the mark of true sophistication for me: sex toys and human remains.” –Cintra Wilson in her critical shopper piece for The Times on Maxfield. We too are unsure about whether the store is ‘avant-garde or sexually complicit, capitalist luxury kitsch,’ Cintra.