Julie Simon Turns Reality TV Addiction into New Career
When Julie Simon started watching Project Runway, an American reality TV show that focuses on fashion design, she had no idea that one day it would inspire her to trade in her computer for a sewing machine. After more than 12 years working as a graphic/web designer, she was ready for a change, so with the show as her muse and YouTube by her side, she bought her first sewing machine. She’d stay up all night cutting fabric from clothes and learning to sew.
“I was simply creating,” she says. “I love to make things. Without even knowing it at the time, Moss Bags was born,” Simon says.
The business name, much like the business itself, just sort of appeared one day. Simon,
