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City Paper 28 Jul 2010
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Natty Threads
Emily Li Mandri looks to continue expanding her start-up fashion label.
Designer/creator Emily Li Mandri is one of the more recent entrants into Baltimore's flowering indie-arts community. She started her clothing label Natty Paint in the spring of 2009, and in just over a year since, she's launched a 2010 summer line, had a booth at Artscape, and has even clothed local musician Dan Deacon.
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The Examiner 5 May 2010
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Natty Paint Turns 1 and Talks Future
On Saturday May 1, 2010 Natty Paint feted its one-year anniversary with a concert and party at Loads of Fun on North Avenue in Baltimore featuring music by DJ Lemz, Effervescent Collective, and Lazerbitch among others. For a brand that’s only been around for the last year, Natty Paint has been making strides towards impacting Baltimore and building into something greater than just a local fashion business.
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Ms. Charm's Chic 22 Feb 2010
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Paint Sometimes Gets Natty
Imagine you are a college student with limited finances around winter break and you really want to get your roommate a gift. Emily Li Mandri, the designer of Natty Paint, found herself in this situation as a senior at John Hopkins University.
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Gutter Magazine 13 Dec 2009
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It's just a little paint, shit.
Paint never looked so good to wear. Natty Paint is a trendy line of innovative reused clothing, beat by painted images created by the lovely lady Emily Li Mandri. She has been spray painting everything imaginable on her own clothing since high school. The first Natty paint design was created in December 2008 for a Christmas present, what a chic gesture!
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T-shirts Around the Internet 21 Nov 2009
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Brand New Brand: Natty Paint
Natty Paint is the work of a sole person, Baltimore artist and designer Emily Li Mandri, who has been selling her creations in local stores for the last few years. Emily combines silkscreening and handpainting and many times adds rhinestones and sewn bits of fabric to achieve a really unique look of wearable art.
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B'More Green 28 Oct 2009
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Natty Paint Vintage
Local artist Emily Li Mandri describes her designs as in your face. “There’s nothing subtle about them. They’re meant to make a statement. An art statement,” she says. Known around town as Natty Paint, Emily’s line of hand painted, silkscreened shirts and hoodies has been going strong for almost two years now. She sells at craft shows, local boutiques, and has done a healthy handful of commissions for places like Shine Collective and Bikram Yoga.
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1 YR Anniversary/New Website Launch Party
Natty Featured Product
Dragon Tote // Black cotton twill tote bag featuring a white dragon.
$12