Vivid Girl Mercedez helped Phallix launch its new Vixen Series of erotic, functional glass art with an appearance Saturday at Crush on Melrose Avenue.
Mercedez autographed pictures and posed for photos for nearly three hours at Phallix’s new retail location, where the company introduced her exclusive piece that was made possible through their new licensing deal with Vivid.
The Crush staff built an entire display featuring Mercedez’s toys, pictures of her from the Vivid Pin-Up Collection and glossy promotional material touting the Vixen Series. The starlet wore a purple corset and black mini skirt and sat at a heart-shaped, Phallix signing stand that was sectioned off by velvet ropes. She called her exclusive piece, which is trimmed in blue and grey, “perfect.”
“It’s not too big and not too small,” Mercedez said. “… It’s double-sided, and I like how it holds the heat. This is something that I would use. It’s beautiful and classy.”
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The immaculate store features custom-made, brushed metal displays, plush furniture, plasma screen TVs and black walls to set off Phallix’s entire product line. There is also a wide selection of contemporary glass blowing pieces and Scar Tissue body jewelry.
Phallix President Rick Plank said the store had been a vision of his for some time.
“I’ve been lucky enough to have great success with the {glass blowing} sector of the business and Phallix is the evolution of that,” he said, noting that the Phallix line has become the most profitable part of his operation.
“It makes me proud when I see all the product in one place. We have every style available in every color available here. We also have prototypes. We get to show off a lot of the things that aren’t practical on the wholesale level.”
Plank added, “I didn’t want it to be a head shop and I didn’t want it to be a sex shop. I really wanted it to be a glass gallery, a heavenly body of glass.”
Plank said the retail store allows him to have unprecedented “interactivity with the customer” that is instrumental with product development.
For more on the Vixen Series, visit www.phallixglass.com.
