Lindsey Thornburg was raised in Aspen Colorado and went on to study philosophy in Santa Barbara. While attending design school in Los Angeles she began creating her first dress collection entitled Fabric. Lindsey then moved to New York in 2003 and continued to devise dresses under this moniker. In 2006, after returning from a trip to the Peruvian highlands of Machu Picchu, with much inspiration from the indigenous attire she began creating her self-entitled collection.