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Isn’t that an uphill how to clean them. Known lo- battle? cally as the Laundry Evangelist, A. When I was a kid, all the he sells specialized laundry sitcoms, all the magazines, all products (some of which bear the movies made it seem like his moniker) and holds intensive cooking dinner was this huge Laundry Camps at Mona Wil- chore. It was seen as drudgery. liams, his Mall of America store, Well, now there are dozens of TV which he hopes to resume after shows and channels, books and the pandemic. magazines devoted to cooking. Now the Kentucky native (who We have celebrities who are fa- got a toy washing machine when mous because of cooking. he was 3), is going national. He’s And cooking hasn’t changed. written a book, “Laundry Love,” We still put a chicken in the oven and has landed a Discovery + like we did in the ‘70s. What’s TV series, “The Laundry Guy,” changed is our attitude. We starting March 31. His surpris- decided that cooking was some- ingly captivating book is part LEILA NAVIDI, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE/TNS thing fun to do, a hobby. autobiography (complete with a Patric Richardson, known as the Laundry Evangelist, posed for a portrait in the laundry room of his home in St. Q. And you want to do the cast of larger-than-life charac- Paul, Minnesota on Friday, January 15, 2021. same with laundry? ters), part how-to. It’s a must- A. Look, there are lots of read for anyone who’s up for a for her and I came to associate Wednesday, I had to wash it my- Q. Was it then that you got people who are out of the closet good story — and wants to get that love with doing laundry. self. When I got to high school, noticed by a certain newspaper? about their love of laundry. that mustard stain out of their I loved washing machines. My I got really concerned about A. Aimee Blanchette [now There just needs to be someone favorite shirt. Uncle Quinn used to hold me how things were ironed. My Aimee Jordan, a former features who says it’s OK to like doing We talked to Richardson about up so I could look down into the mom said if I wanted my clothes writer for the Star Tribune] laundry, sort of a Julia Child of washing wool suits, why he hates washing machine while it was ironed just so, I would be the one wrote about me and her article laundry. detergent pods and why laundry running. My Uncle Kit’s first doing it. just blew up. We couldn’t keep I’m not comparing myself to really is about love. wife took me to the laundromat Q. You studied fashion mer- the [laundry] products in stock Julia Child. She’s an icon. But Q. How did you get fixated on where they had front loaders. chandising and worked in ap- and the phone was ringing off she was one of the first to tell laundry? When I was 3 years old Santa parel in Neiman Marcus and the hook with people asking people it was OK to like to cook. A. My Granny Dude [his nick- brought me a [toy] washing ma- Nordstrom. When did laundry laundry questions. Q. During the pandemic, name for his grandmother]. She chine. reappear in your career? Q. How did you end up hold- most of us haven’t gotten out was incredibly well-dressed Q. Was it just laundry you A. I opened Mona Williams in ing Laundry Camp? of sweatpants. Do you think and stylish and surprisingly loved? northeast Minneapolis, selling A. Originally, it was called we can care about how we look modern. She would travel to the A. I loved clothes, too. Oh, vintage and high-end designer Clean Clothes and Dirty Marti- again? nearest big town to shop. At the my goodness! I was voted best clothes. I knew some of the vin- nis because I thought I needed A. As soon as we come out of time, our town didn’t have a dry dressed — in grade school and tage pieces wouldn’t hold up to booze to attract people. When the pandemic, there’s going to cleaner, so she figured out how high school. dry cleaning, so I started to carry my store moved to the Mall of be a huge resurgence in dressing to wash all the fine clothes she Q. So when did you start actu- a line of laundry products. America, I couldn’t serve al- — or we’re going to stick with owned. ally doing laundry? I loved telling people how to cohol. But people didn’t really sweatpants. But if we do, we’ll Q. And you were her helper? A. My mom did the laundry care for their clothes. That was care. They wanted to know about buy really nice sweatpants and A. One of my earliest memo- once a week. If I wanted to wear the best part. I would tell people, sorting, cleaning, drying, iron- take good care of them. ries is of handing her clothes- something for a game on Friday “Yes, you absolutely can wash ing and, my fave, dealing with pins. I had this incredible love night that I’d worn to school on that wool Chanel suit.” stains. 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Peo- two-story home, it is most de- T and trends have changed to ber the tapestries, the rugs, the white, white today. Wow. What’s ple are more eager for a play area sired to have four bedrooms up- meet today’s demograph- embroidered pillows? Back in coming next? off an open kitchen and family stairs. Jack and Jill bedrooms are ics and age groups.