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 recently found out that Lucy Liu and Brie Larson have both bought Natty Paint items at AuH2O, a store in New York that carries some of our clothes. We are so excited about this and hope that they get their friends hooked on Natty too.
Here is a picture of the dress that Brie Larson bought:
Also, Lucy Liu was spotted by People Magazine walking right across the street from AuH2O:
These two lovely ladies are in a movie called East Fifth Bliss together and it is rumored that Brie Larson will be sporting her Natty Paint in the movie. Get pumped!
Step aside, Vicky Cristina. It’s looks like Barcelona’s latest love affair may very well be with Natty Paint, thanks in part to Barcelona-based band Delorean, a hypnotic and sunny electro synthpop group hailing allll the way up north from Zarutz, Spain.
They opened for Miike Snow at the 9:30 club last week. After the show we were able to snag up the lovely dudes and give them some customized Natty Paint tee shirts. Ellosencantaron. (That means theyloved, for all the gringos out there.) Loved the shirts so much, in fact, that they planned to wear them to their Philly concert the next day. Buenissimo!
Here’s some pics of the chicos donning Natty Paint:
We are definitely planning on collaborating with them in the future and customizing more of their band tees and posters! Keep watch!
Check out their official myspace page or a review of their album Ayrton Senna, the “perfect summer album.” Here’s an interview with our favorite brassy Basque Boys.
The video has arrived! Check out out Natty Paint’s Emily Li Mandri in an interview with Paul from Gorilla Late Night (And check out his fabulous Natty Paint tie!)
What comes to mind when one thinks of Baltimore’s fashion scene? Who triumphs as commander of the B’more style squadron? Natty Paint emerged victorious without even having to don a pair of boxing gloves in the face-off (after all, we are eco-friendly lovers..not fighters..)
What are we talking about exactly? Just some blog-action on the part of Paulette Wilson, a senior Journalism major at Towson University, who was commissioned by a class at Towson to create a specific blog outlining and defining the Baltimore fashion scene: The companies, designers, and stores that comprise of the pulse of Baltimore’s very living and breathing iconoclastic fashion entity. Paulette selected Natty Paint as a very important Baltimore fashion force to be reckoned with! (Alongside the creator of Baltimore Fashion Week April Camlin)
Thus she will interview Natty Paint’s very own Emily Li Mandri in her attempt to define “Baltimore’s fashion scene through asking real experts around town”–and later write up her lovely blog- Ms. Charm’s Chic.
What exciting coverage! Don’t forget to check out both the blog itself and the interview with Natty Paint!
Thanks to everyone for all their orders on etsy! All shipments will go out in the next few days (delayed by the copious amounts of snow) unless I have emailed you to say NP is out of the size you have ordered. In that case it will take about a week to send out your shirt. The sale on tees and sweatshirts has ended, but all winter vintage apparel is still 40-50% off! Let’s refer to this as the SNOWPOCALYPSE SALE! Here’s a pic of what it looks like outside…
As we get ready for the upcoming look book shoot to be photographed by JMG of Gutter Mag, we are creating show stopping pieces! One project was turning a vintage raincoat into a cape… check out the pics. Next up, a ONESIE! Natty Paint has never been so hipster…
So after checking out Diece Boutique in Fed Hill and talking to Shabdiece, we decided it would be cool if I silkscreened on vintage apparel. Diece is all about sustainable clothing, and supports local artists. Feels like a store you’d stumble upon on the lower east side in NYC. Check out the first pieces of the Natty Paint vintage line!
This weekend is the Nearly New Sale at GBMC, which is going to be awesome. We’re going to get sweaters, vests, and dresses to silkscreen on, which will then be sold on our website and etsy store! Get excited!
So today, we worked on the new tag for our new vintage line. This is what it looks like:
Click HERE to read the article online.
