At Arrowhead, the emphasis is on process and materials. Each garment is hand-cut and –fabricated in our home studio in Yarmouth, Maine using the highest quality sustainable fabrics, including organic cotton, wool, denim and hemp.

Founder and designer Suzanne MacFadyen has spent decades fascinated and inspired by handmade textiles and homegrown manufacturing. Her interest in the whole garment started early. Beginning in 1970, as a designer for Rhode Island’s India Imports line, she traveled to the prêt shows in Paris and then to Jaipur each season—first to find Western design inspiration, then to learn from and work with Indian fabric dyers. Later, she launched Bear Wear, a women’s ready-to-wear line inspired by the—as yet underexplored—sportswear industry, and Lipstick Traces, an all-leather, tailored women’s punk line.

Whether punk or paisley, an attention to both materials and domestic fabrication has marked Suzanne’s career. In 1994, faced with the Northeast’s fast fading garment industry and the intense sticker shock of overseas production, she decided to move on, disillusioned, after 30 years, with what the industry had become.

With Arrowhead, Suzanne has found a new source of energy and inspiration both in organic materials and in online direct-to-consumer sales and production. By selling online or at trunk shows and making each item herself, she’s once again able to focus on and explore her passions: beautiful, storied fabrics and wearable, work-inspired, design. 

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