Designers: Camilla Eckersley and Davora Lindner

Designed and produced in Seattle, Washington

Materials: 100% Organic Cotton Fleece and Jeresy (from Spartanburg, South Carolina), Canvas, Tea Dyed Muslin, Hemp, Denim

Production: All of our garments are sewn and dyed by contractors working within 15 minutes from our studio in Seattle.

Awards - 2 time finalist for Ecco Domani Sustainble Designers of the Year

About Prairie Underground:

Camilla Eckersley and I became friends in high school in the 80's.  As teenage rebels in the midwest we were struck by the New Romantic music movement in London and the East Village art scene in New York.  Experimental fashion statements were like direct action in our small town, and we were seriously engaged in the semiotics of dress before we knew it had meaning or future relevance.  This alternative culture flourished against the panoramic skyline and often we dressed in elegant costumes to go to a park or truck stop diner where we would dream of the cities in our creative future.  This is the meaning of Prairie Underground.  Our collection is created as an homage to iconoclastic women everywhere who remain independent in spirit.

We relocated to Seattle in the summer of 2004 to launch our Prairie Underground.   We left behind successful careers in San Francisco and Minneapolis to pursue our childhood dream of creating our own collection, Camilla was working as a designer at Rebecca Beeson and I was creating and exhibiting my art work.

We held our first strategy meetings on the bed of my studio apartment in First Hill, never really considering the possibility that the line might fail, or that Seattle wouldn't be the perfect place to produce a clothing line.  Like a lot of designers we began our company with very little start up however after fourteen collections we remain entirely independent with no outside investors, completely off the map in fashion circles.   We are both quite proud of what we have created and that we are a part of a contemporary fashion dialogue.

We have used sustainable and organic fabrics in every collection we have produced beginning with Summer of 2005.  While it has always been a part of our business ethic to incorporate these materials we have shied away from describing ourselves exclusively as an eco line because that only describes a part of our business.  We want to be a populist line so matters of accessibility, economy, domestic production and style are all a part of our design philosophy.  We are also designers with an idiosyncratic point of view, obsessive about fit and how our end user will wear our clothes every day.  We want to make non-conformist uniforms for cool working women.

We produce and ship every item in the collection, none of the clothing we show is for editorial only and all styles are available in stores, even if that means cutting 20 pieces.  This business supports us entirely, and is helping to keep active a diminishing network of sewing contractors in Seattle.  All of our production is subcontracted to local sew shops and the majority of our fabric is knitted in the United States.

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