Report: KISS' GENE SIMMONS Connects With Local Designer
September 13, 2007, 17 years ago
Vancouver, BC's Georgia Straight has issued the following report from Charlie Smith:
Here are four things you may not know about KISS co-founder GENE SIMMONS: his mother survived a Nazi concentration camp; he once taught Grade 6 in Spanish Harlem; his partner, Shannon Tweed, recently wrote a letter to his former girlfriend, Cher, asking her to stop contacting Simmons; and he is a business partner with Vancouver fashion designer Jason Dussault.
Then there is Simmons's widely reported claim that he has gone to bed with 4,800 different women. "I didn't always sleep," Simmons quipped in a recent phone interview with the Straight .
Simmons, star of the TV-reality series Gene Simmons Family Jewels, was speaking in advance of a public appearance on Friday (September 14th) at Vancouver's L2 Leone fashion boutique in the Sinclair Centre (350 Howe Street). He'll be there from 4 to 6 PM to sign autographs and to promote his line of MoneyBag streetwear.
Leone carries MoneyBag, which is designed by Dussault, who brings a high-end rocker's polish to the label. Simmons said that he has owned the MoneyBag logo for 28 years and has used it in book publishing, comics, clothing, and musical instruments. Earlier this year, Simmons formed a partnership with Dussault Custom Ink, which has designed hoodies for Nelly Furtado, Rob Zombie, and Prevail of the Swollen Members.
"It's a nice, small operation," Simmons said. "Small operations can rule the world, like the two guys in a garage who created Google."Read the full story at here.
