In her tiny white T-shirt, atramentous amplitude pants and abbreviate albino bangs, 30-year-old Marcia Kilgore doesn't attending like the boilerplate controlling administrator of a multi-million-dollar company. But Kilgore is the architect of Bliss the ultra-hip SoHo spa of the moment congenital up in a decade from bashful ancestry of giving facials on the attic of her East Village apartment. In March, she awash 70% of the aggregation to LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton for an estimated $30 million. And affairs are accepted to aggrandize to the aerial East Side, Miami and London. Kilgore won't affirm how abundant she fabricated in the sale, but she says that amount is too aerial and any money she makes is accidental aloft affair sales targets. But the Canadian-born babe of a burghal artisan and absolute acreage abettor admits she no best has to scrape about to accounts added mudpacks. "After the merger," she said in a contempo interview, "I alleged my mom in Canada and told her: 'Mom, you apperceive that coffer annual with $30,000 in it? You can accumulate it.
' " Bliss occupies a two-floor amplitude at 568 Broadway abreast Prince St. It's corrective in blue shades of steel, taupe and chartreuse and has appearance like a pedicure breadth congenital to resemble a bank and a beef allowance that looks like the basal of a pond pool. Functional but fun, the spa appeals to adolescent alive women with $185 to splurge on a amber anatomy rub. It additionally has admirers amid celebrities such as Julia Roberts, Liv Tyler, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez and alike Bruce Willis who allow in $90 massages, $125 lemon-peel anatomy rubs, $20 manicures and $35 pedicures. The cat-and-mouse account for a Bliss facial is amid three to six months. Women accept been accepted to delay up to 18 months for a facial from Kilgore herself. At Christmas, bodies lined up to buy allowance certificates. With business booming sales for the spa and its archive of adorableness articles able $11 actor aftermost year Kilgore's been putting in 13-hour canicule and is experiencing one of the atrocious ironies of success: no time to adore it. "I've never acquainted this annoyed in my life," accepted Kilgore, who comes beyond as bent but down-to-earth. "I run out of clothes to abrasion all the time because I don't accept time to go shopping.
" Aftermost month, she and fiance Thierry Boue additionally her business accomplice assuredly carved out a weekend to do article for which they hadn't had time for a year-and-a-half: get married. The commemoration was at Burghal Hall afterwards rings or a bells dress. They honeymooned for the weekend at the Four Seasons hotel. The abutting morning, Kilgore the newlywed jetted off to Paris on business, alone. Boue went aback to their brownstone in Brooklyn. "I do accept my limit," said Boue, 44, a French-born above photographer's agent, apropos to their cyclone schedule. "I booty my canicule off, which is article Marcia does not generally do.
" Kilgore says she's consistently been a workaholic. As a kid growing up in Calgary, she was never annoyed with aloof one job. In 10th grade, she baby-sat at the Y and formed as an aerobics adviser at two gyms. "I adore accepting being accomplished," said Kilgore, who was an account apprentice in aerial academy and a best middleweight bodybuilder. She confused to New York at 18 to appear Columbia University afterwards her sister promised to pay the tuition. But that acquittal plan didn't assignment out and Kilgore had to acquisition addition way to accounts her education. She alone out of Columbia, enrolled in New York University part-time and started alive as a claimed trainer. When she begin herself falling comatose in her cher NYU lectures, she says, she abdicate the academy and enrolled part-time at Baruch, area classes were cheaper. Meanwhile, her aerated agreeableness and networking abilities had amorphous to body her a account of approved clients, including models, designers and celebrities such as Paul Simon and Carrie Fisher. She took a advance in skincare and started alms post-workout facials. Soon, her adorableness business eclipsed her fettle interests, and she opened a mini-spa in a one-room flat on the bend of Lafayette and Bounce Sts. This business grew into Bliss, now an 11,000-square-foot circuitous with some 85 employees. In November, a annex opens on 57th St.
and addition spa is to accessible in Miami abutting spring. Her ambition is "to advance Bliss everywhere.
" Denise Spanek, 39, Kilgore's acquaintance and business associate, sees no acumen Kilgore won't booty her dream all the way. "I accept to say she's apparently the best focused and apprenticed being I accept anytime met in my absolute life," said Spanek, who runs her own architecture and skincare flat in a San Francisco suburb. "She's gone this far, what would stop her from accomplishing the blow of it.
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