Pamela Easton and Lydia Pearson of Brisbane based label Easton Pearson are two of Australia's most innovative and successful fashion designers. Their distinctive collections are sold through some of the worlds top boutiques, from Browns in London to Villa Moda in Kuwait City.

They first met in the 1970s and formed a friendship based partly on their mutual love of vintage dress, theatre and art, however it was to take another ten years before they set up in business together. Pamela Easton worked as a fashion buyer in Brisbane before moving to Melbourne to work with Sportsgirl Australia. Lydia Pearson completed an arts degree and began to produce a fashion range after a dress she'd designed and worn to a party was bought by a boutique owner. In the late 1980s Easton returned from Melbourne, seeking a change from corporate fashion and contemplating setting up a small fashion label. Easton and Pearson discussed their aspirations and finding they were almost identical decided to turn their long term friendship into a design partnership and 'create clothes with soul, and...bring all we love in life into our work.' (Harper's Bazaar, March 2000).

They are both interested in designing and selling clothes that reflect their shared love of vintage clothing, non European textiles, old movies, theatre and books. Using predominantly natural fibres they are best known for creating evocative otherworldly collections of richly romantic clothes featuring beautifully embroidered, beaded and hand crafted fabrics. They design all the decorative detail and pattern on their textiles and have a small workroom in Mumbai, India, employing skilled artisans to complete the exquisite hand-beading and embroidery. All garments are then manufactured in their workrooms in Brisbane.

Easton and Pearson work collaboratively on all their collections, sitting down together to explore the broader collection themes and then the design detail. Their collections reflect their prolific creativity in both the variety of textile techniques explored and adapted, and the sourcing and melding of a whole world of contemporary and traditional ideas and arts.