46 | JUNE 24 • 2021

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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,

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 life-
long 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

Boutique fl
ourishes
with a new owner
in Huntington Woods.

LYNNE KONSTANTIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Party
On!

Details
To book an appointment with Party
Girls Mitzvahs, call Kimi Rott at
(248) 752-3727 or email
partygirlsmitzvahs@gmail.com.

PHOTO BY MARCI BEAN

Molly Frankel
of Huntington
Woods

PHOTO BY MARCI BEAN

Tessa
Rontal of
Huntington
Woods

Kimi Rott,
owner of Party
Girls Mitzvahs

PHOTO BY MARCI BEAN

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