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STORY: HISTORY OF WINTER SUN & SUMMER MOON
Winter
Sun, Rhinebeck opened on Memorial Day Weekend 1988. Started by
Anja Rae
Miller, Gazelle Lange & Lila Pague. The store was a
partnership that was associated with
the wholesale business Winter Sun located in Key West, Fl.
which is where the concept
began and continues in Floyd , VA.
Anja
& Gazelle started selling Ecuadorian sweaters on the streets of
Key West, and Anja who
has a background in design, decided that she could create better
designs and started traveling to
Ecuador and Peru designing and manufacturing cotton, handknit
sweaters. They fell in love with
S.A. and the people, got involved in the community, and
eventually Anja built a factory (which was
extremely unusual for a gringo woman). Lila worked with them at
different times during this period,
doing trade shows and managing a store in Bar Harbor, Maine.
We
explored the idea of a store in Rhinebeck, and after some time, this
location became available.
We signed the lease in February 1988, Lila gave birth to Kenna in
March, and we opened in May.
We did all the work ourselves in the store as far as design,
painting, signs, etc. At one time there
were Winter Sun stores in Key West, Bar Harbor, Virginina, Rhinebeck,
and Sante Fe. In 1999 the
space next door became available, and Lila & Steven decided to
open an extension and this
became Summer Moon. Since we were in partnership with two other
people we had to have a
separate name. Since then we have bought out the partnership
and the stores are under the
ownership of Lila & Steven Pague. |
