Clint Zeagler shining as a fashion designer

16 Oct '06

1 min read

Atlanta fashion designer Clint Zeagler owes a lot to his grandparents. His hand crafted T-shirts remind one that they're "Made With Real Butter" and "Baked With Love" — just like his grandparents' famous pecan pies from the 1960s.

Clint is representative of a new generation of young urban Southerners and his deep devotion to the Southern roots is the main reason behind Pecan Pie's early success.

Zeagler uses Villa Rica Knitters, Pembroke Textile Associates in South Carolina and Cherokee beaders on a Native American reservation in North Carolina to create his shirts, hoodies and scarves.

Clint Zeagler has woven all those homespun elements, along with the skills he learned studying industrial design and textile manufacturing at Georgia Tech and getting a master's degree from Domus Academy in Milan, Italy, to create Pecan Pie Couture.

For Zeagler, fashion doesn't have to be pretentious. His fledgling company is breaking even, and he's hopeful that his bigger summer 2007 line will translate into dough — of the green variety — for Pecan Pie.

Zeagler and his company were recently named "Best Local Clothing Designer" in the reader-driven "Best of Atlanta" issue of Creative Loafing.

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