Our story started in the basement of 84 Christopher Street, Manhattan, NY. J Kim is the founder and CEO of London Boutique. In the early 90’s he noticed that there were very few businesses selling leather apparel for the community of gay men. He saw this as an opportunity to make leather apparel to support the community and provide leather apparel for them to explore the new side of fashion. J Kim uses part of the basement as a small factory space to make hand-made leather apparel and the rest of the space was used to display the products. J Kim would make leather pants, harnesses, jockstraps, leashes, and more. Then he started to grow his business by adding sex toys into his inventory, which soon came to be London Boutique in 1997. Throughout time London Boutique has rapidly expanded to six locations in New York.