38 -— Sunday, December 2. 1990 - North Shore News

AFFLUENCE & INFLUENCE

Huge profits
won't stop
Pappas from
working the floor

CONSTANTINE PAPPAS
is talking a blue streak. In
fact, everything that sur-
rounds him is blue.

By Evelyn Jacob
News Reporter

Entering his spacious Hamilton
Street showroom, Pappas and his
four reflections brush past a full-
length, four-way mirror, sink into
a dark blue leather couch and rest
all 10 shiny shoes on plush blue
carpeting.

“When you work with blue
tones,’’ explains the — cieguntly-
dressed Pappas, ‘tit gives a natu-
ral cast to the fur. If you go with
any other color tone it will give an
off-cast to the fur.’

Who would dream that so much
thought goes into the presentation
of pelts? Pappas, however, re-
minds you that Pappas Furs —
the largest independent furrier in
Canada — knows the fur industry
inside out.

In business since 1913, the
company has spanned three gen-
erations of Pappases — from
grandfather Theo, who left Greece
at age !4 and worked his way
across Canada on the railroad, to
father Ted the Second, a shrewd
businessman, to Constantine.

Thirteen years ago, Constan-
tine, 40, took over the retail and
manufacturing portion of the
Pappas empire, father Ted, 69,
remains president of the com-
pany’s Raw Fur Auction.

The family business has grown
from a Prince George trading post

he fur king

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; NEWS photo Nall Lucente
FUR KING Constantine Pappas poses with sore of his finer wares at his Hamilton Street retail outlet in Van-
couver. The pelt business has been in the Pappas family for three generations.

mink. The most expensive item
here is a Russian Sable coat —

signer labels including Christian
Dior, Yves St. Laurent, Nina Ric-

ci and Grosvenor, in addition to
Pappas Furs’ own exclusive line.
The downtown Vancouver store

yours for a mere $150,000.
In contrast to grandfather Ted

NEW

— ‘a bad boy with a Grade 3
education who started out
See Pappas page 39

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fully-integrated fur company, car-
rying 14 prestigious fashion de-

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