This past weekend we travelled down to Baltimore to sell our line at Artscape, a 3 day Arts festival in the heart of Baltimore city. Here are some pics from the event:
Here’s our booth set up, so spacious and colorful! We even had a changing room in the back.
The plastic raincape from our in-house line was a hit! The gold stripes were drawn by hand with gold enamel marker.
Our friend Jess from Unparagoned Models Inc. stopped by and bought our in-house harem pants!
Margaret got an in-house hand silkscreened polka-dot skirt and our raincape!
A happy customer with our in-house molecula bloomers.
LUNCH!
By the last day of Artscape, most of our inventory had sold. Note all the shirts missing from our display!
We couldn’t have survived Artscape without our best friend Cassie. Thank you for all your help!
Check out Claire Hux‘s new music video for their new single Grab On, in which Natty Paint makes a cameo! The video was directed by Brian Morrison, who also filmed a few of Lazerbitch’s music videos.
Filming was a lot of fun, and I helped style the girls for the shoot. I’ve been friends with the guys in Claire Hux for a while now and love working with them!
You can become a fan of Claire Hux on their Facebook Page.
And FYI, Claire Hux is named after Claire Huxtable of the Cosby Show, a very classy and sassy woman indeed!
This past weekend, I Bolt Bussed it to Baltimore to help my friends in Claire Hux shoot a music video for their new single Grab On. (Soon to be released!) The video was shot by Brian Morrison, who also shot Lazerbitch’sCoquette video. Natty Paint designed and printed some shirts for Lazerbitch a while back, check them out HERE.
The video involves a bunch of girls auditioning for a role, with the members of Claire Hux, Symbol and Daren, picking the talent. I helped style and dress the girls for the shoot, and was in it myself!
I’m not going to give anything else away, but check out the pics from the shoot here!
That’s me! In Natty Paint!
Check out the green screen!
I’ll be sure to post the video on here when it’s done!
After the Birthed from Within fashion show, my best friend and I hurried over to The Ram’s Head in Baltimore to see La Roux. I’m a huge fan of their music and their fashion sense, and have been so for quite a while now! It was always a dream of mine to be able to give them some NP, and when I found out one of my friends who also modelled for NP was a friend of one of the keyboardists in La Roux, it all came together!
So, after the show, I ended up going backstage and meeting La Roux! Elly and Mickey loved the clothes, and we got some great pics together.
Here’s a pic of Mickey signing an adoring fan’s shoe while wearing a Natty Paint vintage blazer with our dragon design!
And here’s a pic of Elly and me hanging out in the dressing room.
Everyone was very chill and down to earth, which was incredibly refreshing. It’s great to meet people my age doing what they love to do, being successful, and still being down to earth and approachable. I found out afterwards Rye Rye also stopped in to say hi after the show, I must have just missed her!
On November 3rd, Natty Paint participated in a fashion show in Baltimore with Unparagoned Models Inc. They pulled out all the stops, including having a catwalk and multiple dance routines. It was a great time and everyone looked hot in Natty Paint’s fall/winter 2010 line!
We wanted to spread the word about NP at the show, so we attached stickers and business cards to condoms (courtesy of Johns Hopkins’ Health Center!) and left them on the chairs for the show. It was a hit!
We decided to play Willow’s Whip My Hair for the show.
If you haven’t seen her video or heard the song yet, you MUST CHECK IT OUT HERE!
I learned what a flood was too, it’s when all the models walk out at the end of the show and clap.
Natty Paint is making strides in Baltimore! We’re on the front page of this week’s City Paper, which is available for free all over Baltimore! This is a huge honor for us and great exposure. Thanks everyone for the support!
Greater Homewood Community Corporation, a local non-profit organization for which we designed and printed shirts for this past fall for their 40 Trees in 40 Neighborhoods initiative, congratulated us for the feature in City Paper on their blog.
In celebration of the feature story, they are offering the Natty Paint 40 Trees tees at a special discounted rate of ONLY $15 for one week only! Each one was hand-printed by Natty Paint on organic cotton with eco-friendly inks and can be purchased at their online store. All proceeds go towards GHCC’s efforts to plant 1,600 trees by Spring 2011.
We just finished whipping out shirts for The Dogwood, a restaurant located in our neck of the woods, Hampden! The Dogwood specializes in sustainable American cuisine. The shirts are the new uniform of the servers and bussers, and are also on sale for ONLY $20. We dropped them off yesterday and already a bunch have sold. Stop in ASAP to grab a bite to eat and a shirt.
This past weekend was Artscape in Baltimore, which meant tons of people enjoying every art form imaginable! We came, sold, and conquered in the blazing heat at our DIY booth. We sold over 100 pieces of clothing and got our name out. Make sure to like us on Facebook!
Here are some pics from the weekend.
We had all three lines out for sale.
We got a bubble machine for the booth, which little kids really enjoyed.
The reworked vintage skirts, selling for ONLY $24 were a hit!
Fellow designer Virginia, of Deda & Young, stopped by to say hi. She was a tad taller than we remembered.
Natty Paint will have a booth at ARTSCAPE this summer!!!!
Artscape is the largest free arts festival. The festival dates are July 16-18. It will be located on multiple blocks surrounding Mt. Royal Avenue and North Charles Street.
Natty Paint’s booth will be located in the DIY section!
Saturday, June 26th at 8:00PM, Natty Paint will be at Paradox Nightclub! Natty Paint will be dressing many of the performers at this event including DJ Lemz.
Paradox Nightclub is located at 1310 Russell Street Baltimore, MD.
A protest against boredom.
An underground, modern-yet-throwback fantasy nightlife experience.
Truly avant garde, recklessly beautiful, edgy, and now.
With a focus on live music performances and DJs, but a melting together of scenes and crossing of boundaries.
Express yourself through your outfits – the most interesting concepts will be rewarded with free entrance (for you AND your party). Get the make-up out…look through some mags and sport some rags–have some fun making your outfit.
There are Three Music Areas—bands, DJs and
live P.A.
BBQ by Mama Saray
Tickets $20 in advance (more at the door). Click Here for advanced ticket sales.
For more info about this event, check it out on Facebook!
Our friend Jess from Unparagoned Models Inc. stopped by and bought our in-house harem pants!
Margaret got an in-house hand silkscreened polka-dot skirt and our raincape!
A happy customer with our in-house molecula bloomers.
By the last day of Artscape, most of our inventory had sold. Note all the shirts missing from our display!
