PHOTO BY MARCI BEAN
PHOTO BY MARCI BEAN
Molly Frankel of Huntington Woods
Party On! Boutique flourishes with a new owner in Huntington Woods.
Kimi Rott, owner of Party Girls Mitzvahs
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To book an appointment with Party Girls Mitzvahs, call Kimi Rott at (248) 752-3727 or email partygirlsmitzvahs@gmail.com. Tessa Rontal of Huntington Woods
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ast May, Amy Regal, longtime makeup artist and owner of Glamour Puss and Party Girls in Franklin, closed Party Girls — and her legions of fans were in mourning. The boutique was created to be a fun and comfortable space just for girls, like their bedroom at home, where they could try on dresses for each other for proms, homecomings, bar and bat mitzvahs and other special occasions. That’s when Kimberly “Kimi” Rott stepped in. “I worked with Amy in the beauty business on and off for years,” Rott says. “When she decided to close Party Girls,
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she called and asked if I was interested in taking over.” Rott jumped at the chance and then some. As a young mom of twin girls in 2005, the then-manicurist fulfilled a lifelong dream of opening a children’s clothing store, Syd & Samz in Royal Oak. “There were no stores for tweens at that time,” Rott says. “I wanted a place that I would have shopped at. So, I went to a trade show in Chicago and opened the store three weeks later.” Rott closed the boutique, which had quickly become a local favorite, in 2007, when she became pregnant with her third daughter, but kept her toes in the water continued on page 48
JUNE 24 • 2021
PHOTO BY MARCI BEAN
LYNNE KONSTANTIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
