46 | JUNE 24 • 2021 

L

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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