A day in the life – Child Proof

CLAIRE THOMAS-MORGAN asks her two giggling children and a neighborhood friend to play quietly before turning to walk down the hallway to the master bedroom.

- By Samantha Stevenson

CLAIRE THOMAS-MORGAN asks her two giggling children and a neighborhood friend to play quietly before turning to walk down the hallway to the master bedroom. There, just off the back of the room, is her studio. With a soft click she closes the French doors. Silence. It’s a different world in here.“I lock the doors if I have to,” she says, laughing.

Inspired by the garments she was making for daughter Lyra, now 7, Thomas-Morgan started a line of children’s clothes, Vivi Design Studio, in 2014. Six years later, she’s outgrowing the studio space. The couple built the addition in 2016, when operating from the basement no longer seemed like a good idea, Thomas-Morgan recalls: “I would drop pins or something—the kids play down there—and I’d think, ‘No!’”