Lauren Moffatt

Lauren Moffatt is slowly building a name for herself as a budding designer. Her clothes have a re-worked retro feel to them. "The first two seasons Moffatt and Pepin sewed all the designs — several hundred pieces — out of their home. A big task for anyone, but especially for Pepin and Moffatt, both admittedly weak in the sewing department. An even bigger task since the two live on a 31-foot sailboat docked in New York Harbor. Pepin bought the boat when they started the business as a way of circumventing high Manhattan rents. It’s cheap, but such small quarters and the motion of the ocean aren’t exactly the ideal environment for sewing a straight line.

"It’s like camping 365 days of the year," says Moffatt of their rustic home.

Though they still live on the boat, success has afforded them a small office space in a mid-town sewing factory where their line is also manufactured. Moffatt designs and Pepin handles the manufacturing end; both do the marketing. As a result of their salesmanship, Lauren Moffatt is in 11 stores across the globe including locations as far as San Francisco and Tokyo. But it wasn’t until last week that the line made its way to Philadelphia."Read more...