New york-There is a clue from the 1950 s to the launch of the Espresso cafe to Hogtown, extending to the luxury porn boutique that is currently steaming big apples.
One end is Giacomo Zuccarini, who teaches White
Bread Toronto taste the sensory pleasure of espresso.
The other is his daughter, Jennifer, who started
End the "intimate clothing and products" market in Soho, New York.
Giacomo brought the first espresso maker from Milan to Canada in 1954 and opened a popular sidewalk cafe in Yonge and college Sts with partners.
Toronto police headquarters.
He soon left and started a company specializing in high import business.
The Gaggia coffee machine is over.
Jennifer, 31, said in fashionable clothes: "Dad is a pioneer in his industry, which really affects me . "but-
Delicate and chic, there is a playful hat on the long golden hair.
There is no doubt that in Toronto in the 1950 s it was a little easier to introduce new products to consumers than in the 21 st century --Century Gotham.
But with the help of partner Andrew Pollard and some investors, Jennifer zukalini seems to have succeeded.
With Kiki opening for only 10 months, they plan to launch four new stores next year.
Kiki is a shop, brand, internet retailer and wholesale enterprise named after Paris models, artists and liberators, and is about sex.
However, the word feels rough and pedestrian, and here, a striking original nude photo taken by photographer Man Ray stared at the blindfolded silk underwear model while cleverly arranging the underpantsmoi (tie me up).
"The long, narrow shop on the pebbles --
Stone throwing on Green Street
Also selling sex toys (
Called "tools of happiness" here ");
Bath and bedding; sexy jewellery;
Photo books and so on, emphasizing luxury, even decadent, naughty.
"We're not tall-end sex shop.
"We are a luxury lifestyle store around romance and intimacy," said Zuccarini . " He grew up on Bathurst Street. -Lawrence Ave. West area.
Since she was a little girl, she has been helping family businesses, but she is more interested in fashion than coffee.
"Since I was 9 years old, I wanted to be a fashion designer," she said . "
"I always wanted to be fashion.
Dad thought I was crazy.
"She left Toronto at the age of 21, studied fine arts at Concordia University in Montreal, and then studied costume design at the prestigious School of Fashion Technology in New York. Pollard, a 35-year-
While working in Montreal, the Australian boss and former fashion marketing executive met with zukalini.
After moving in New York, he said (
Romance and business
See Chanel, Dior and other luxury retailers use sex to sell everything from clothes to perfumes to accessories, that is, products other than for practicality.
Luxury shops are always sexy.
They are immersed in the idea of sex and pornography, but this does not really solve the problem positively, "said Pollard, who is tall, dark and thin.
"So we want to have a lot of products to use directly. . .
What we are doing is not really done yet.
In March 2005, zukalini and Pollard took a gamble and quit their jobs.
She's a freelance designer. he was a vice-
President of American jeans
The shop was very busy a few months later.
"The business opening in May is becoming self-
Enough. "Pollard, who is in charge of sales and marketing, said.
He said with a smile that Kiki's investors-mostly from the fashion world, were openly silent, but were involved as advisers-were "very happy ".
The couple are working in a new place in New York.
The packaging area has signed a space lease for the trendy Melrose Avenue.
In Los Angeles, and plans to continue to aggressively expand with the new Kiki store in Miami and Las Vegas this year.
After that, they will focus on requests for custom stock
Produce products from stores in Canada, Europe and Japan.
Internet sales accounted for about the revenue, is growing.
Bai Fumei, Barnes New York, has just started selling a collection of Zuccarini underwear for Kiki.
What impression did they make of these people? it-All New Yorkers?
The store is carefully divided into three themes or "acts" and the lights will significantly reduce the distance you travel.
First of all, it is the traditional retail stage, with the signs of underwear and naughty --
Ed pillowcases, weekend "intimate" sets, jewelry, leather gloves and masks are all presented in subtle ways to reassure shoppers.
Next is "pharmacist and library" with bath and beauty products including soy
Cool candles-
The burning wax should drop on your partner and massage into skin and vintage porn albums like Sam Haskins's "Cowboy Kate.
And vibrators;
Didos and other "entertainment tools ";
Pornographic CDs and DVDs;
For the filmit-
Yourself, still camera and camera including 24 cameras
Carat gold model decorated with diamonds.
The back is "boudoir" with a brass bed with rhubarb and the top is a pillow case embroidered with "sleep" and f-
Another word.
There is also more jewelry, including imaginative feathers "itchy rings" that only suggest its use at night.
A piece of silk with Kiki's signature pattern, with small handcuffs and masks, can be used as a scarf, eye mask or restraint.
A big concern.
The suction is leather. and-
The brass sex chair is called the Tally Ho. The mid-
The store locker room is really a tent made of broken velvet.
Two large enough that their lighting can be adjusted to the level marked before, during and after.
Champagne is available, and couples must sometimes be encouraged to appear with caution.
Sex is not cheap here.
Unlike the genuine, equal and somewhat granola feel of Toronto's stores, Kiki's goal is for "aspiring" consumers, if not the rich.
The silk eye mask embroidered with a "servant" is $195 (all prices U. S. );
Insert the penis ring with cubic zirconium for $795;
Titanium vibrator $450; the "Attache-
Underwear is $65;
A tight black lady "cat suit" costs $495.
But candles and some other items cost less than $50.
Designers hired to develop Kiki branded products include Michael Young, an international renowned sex toy.
Zuccarini and Pollard want to do what Apple does for MP3 players for the vibrator.
They often use the word "design" and when asked about the touchstone of the business, first of all, the quality of materials, packaging, environment and aesthetics (
Retail and networking)
Impeccable service.
Upstairs is a salon where many nights they host meetings including how to make and show romantic dinners and even more interesting is how exactly you should handle this more
Adult toys downstairs.
The result was a sensation, with celebrity SUVs and favorable articles marching at their doorstep at a news conference in New York.
But not everyone is very enthusiastic.
A blogger named Anamorphosis posted an entry called "Why do I hate Kiki" and thought: "It legalizes a firm bourgeois desire to explore the possibility of Kinks just because the products are too expensive. . .
It was purely for vanity and a little thrill of being so impatient at the cocktail party.
"The Kiki team doesn't seem to care about the critics and is the first team to acknowledge that the store isn't for everyone.
This is the problem.
"You can't satisfy them all," zukalini said with a shrug . ".
Despite the many legends about the Big Apple, she is not shy about her roots in Toronto and often goes home to visit her mother Karin and Jackie sisters, who now run zukaliniLtd.
And Janet, who owns the Nervosa cafe in Yorkville.
He died about seven years ago.
Zukalini says it's hard for her to describe to her father exactly what she's selling.
But she has no doubt what he will think of her success.
"I think he will be blown away," she said . ".
He will be very proud.