JENNIE YIP

• Restaurant Manager at 44 in the Royalton Hotel, with Chef Geoffrey Zakarian and Owner Brian McNally
• Launched BLUE DOOR at Delano Hotel as Assistant GM with Chef George Maron and Chef George Fistrovich
• Formed JENJUICE CONCEPTS LLC, NY, Restaurant Consultant Company
• 1996 developed five new restaurant concepts for WAVE DEPARTMENT STORE in Bangkok as creative director of Food and Beverage. Designed by Christian Liaigre
• INDOCHINE , NY as General Manager with Chef Hui Chi-Le
• Launched MERCER (KITCHEN) at Mercer Hotel, NY as General Manager with culinary king Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Designer Christian Liaigre and Hotelier Andre Balazs
• Formed JONATHAN MORR GROUP a Hospitality Company with partners Jonathan Morr and Amir Ben-Zion. WIth designer India Mahdavi, developed and launched 70 room TOWNHOUSE HOTEL and BONDST LOUNGE. Also APT nightclub
• 2001 Launched THEO Restaurant
• Developed CONDESSA HOTEL and Food & Beverage, Mexico City with Hotelier Moises Micha and Carlos Courterier
• Partnered in 2003 with Amir Ben-Zion in Miami Beach to launched in name-sake restaurant MISS YIP CHINESE CAFE. A modern Shanghai brasserie serving cantonese cuisine and BUCK15 japanese inspired local club showcasing street art and collectible toys
• 2005 Partnered with Ian Schrager at the Gramercy Park Hotel developing the Food & Beverage Program, and Chinese restaurant.
• Expanding Miss Yip Chinese Cafe

• Amir Ben-Zion was born in Israel and moved to NYC in 1978, a part time musician and Real Estate broker during the early 1980’s amir founded.
• First Corporate Sedans (FCS), a corporate transportation fleet in NYC in 1985, Today FCS is one of NY City’s largest fleets, providing nearly 500 Town cars to fortune 500 corporations.
• In the mid 1990’s Amir along with Jonathan Morr and Jennie Yip have created the Jonathan Morr Group, presently under ownership and management are the Townhouse Hotel in Miami Beach, Bond St Sushi Lounge in Miami Beach, the group is also the creative force behind APT, the famous lounge in the Meet packing district of NY.
• Amir and his family (Dr. Ester Ben-Zion plus 4 ) have moved to Miami Beach in 1998 where Amir founded Paradise Properties, PP is the owner/developer of several residential and commercial projects, Cynergi Lofts, Park lane Tower, The Chelsea, Brickell Flatiron and Mid Town Lofts which have been designed by Enrique Norten.
• In 2004 Amir and partner Jennie Yip have launched Miss Yip Chinese café and Buck15 both are on South Beach world famous Lincoln Road…Amir will soon open Bardot, a lounge in the old Post Office of the Design District section in Miami.

• China Restaurant, Sheraton, Hong Kong -10 years where he developed his own cooking style, placing the emphasis on retaining natural flavors
• Eagles Nest, Hilton, Hong Kong
• Lai Jing, Regent, Hong Kong -won Best Gourmet Chef in Hong Kong in both 1992 and 1996.
• Crystal Palace , Los Angeles
• Tse Fung-La Reserve Hotel and Spa, Geneva , Switzerland - to work with executive chef Philippe Durandeau as the re-opening team at the time one of the top Chinese restaurants in Europe .

• Paul Niski has been in the design industry for more than 25 years with experience in graphic design, fashion advertising, identity and branding, product and retail merchandising, as well as store and restaurant design.
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• Bloomingdale's, NYC, Art Director
• Café Luxembourg, NYC, identity and branding
• Odeon, NYC, identity and branding
• Bloomingdale's By Mail, NYC, OVP Creative Director
• The Gap Inc., San Francisco CA, VP Creative Director responsible for The Gap, Gap Kids as well as repostioning Banana Republic.
• Studio N, NYC, Founder & Creative Director. Design studio creating
and designing campaigns, and projects for Bergdorf Goodman, Calvin Klein, Felissimo, Gucci, Lacoste and Neiman Marcus.
• Gucci S.p.a., Milan, Italy, advertising project
• Wave Department Store, Bangkok, Thailand, SVP Creative Director
• GOOD Inc, NYC, a creative design firm. Clients: Anthropologie, Bocado.com, Crabtree & Evelyn, Salvatore Ferragamo, Garden.com, Trussardi italia
• Crabtree & Evelyn, VP Creative Director, Waltham, MA, to reposition
and redesign their image.
• GOOD Inc, Boston, Creative Director / Consultant. Clients include: Alene Candles, Brookstone, Buck15, Crabtree & Evelyn, East-singapore, Eat-Drink-Laugh Restaurant Group, Illume Candles, Miss Yip Chinese Cafe, Paradise International Development.
• GOOD, Boston, MA, a shop/gallery with a fresh and diverse mix of objects that reflects Paul's desire to integrate home, fashion, art and design. (www.shopatgood.com).
• Miss Yip Chinese Café, Miami Beach, interior designer, identity and branding
• 21st Amendment, Boston, MA, interior designer, identity and branding
• Blarney Stone, Dorchester, MA, interior designer, identity and branding

"it's all about the pleasure of seeing friends enjoying freedom and fun whilst wearing my clothes..."

"everyone that I've come across so far always pauses and giggles when they hear the name sexylittlebeach," says Rai Von Bueren, the fashion designer whose pieces have featured in Thai Luxury Spas and are de rigeur in glitterattipacked resorts such as Amanpuri, Rayavadee and Pansea Koh Samui. "It's not my fault that they have deviant minds!"

Rai is hardly your common or garden fashion designer, in fact the humble Eurasian model doesn't even presume to give herself such a grandiose title. "It was never my dream to be fashion designer," she says, "and I don't consider myself to be one. I'm not inventing anything new, just rehashing old ideas and adding a little Eurasian flair to it."

Harsh self criticism from one of Thailand's most famous models, the creator of some of the country's cutest threads, and the latest iconic designer to be called upon to demand a walk-out on reality-meets-calamity show, America's Next Top Model.

"sexylittlebeach is one of my hobbies," she continues. "it's more about the pleasure of seeing friends enjoying freedom and fun whilst wearing my clothes."

The clothes themselves are certainly playful and flowing. The tropical style means that light fabrics have been paired with soothing colours, and when you slip on some of her Thai-Style trousers and cotton tops, or light cotton dress, you'll get that lightheaded 'I'm on holiday' feeling, whether you're away from home or not.

Launched in 2004 as a result of an increasing amount of resort hopping while modeling, Rai still designs sexylittlebeach as clothes she would want to wear, and as a Eurasian merges oriental and modern western touches with a delicate touch. "My father is Hong Kong Chinese and my mother is Australian. I'm married to a German/Thai and living in Thailand, so yes it's the way I see things. I try to find the best of both worlds and marry them into my ideas."