Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Florence, Alabama-based sustainable lifestyle brand recently announced a move towards a nonprofit model. Rinne Allen; Hair and ...

. Here is some information about Chanin from her book and website: Internationally acclaimed designer Natalie Chanin grew up in Florence, Alabama, learning to stitch from her mother, grandmothers, and ...

Natalie Chanin modernized homespun fashion with her first collection of one-of-a-kind t-shirts under her Project Alabama label back in 2000. Hiring local quilters and sewers from her hometown of ...

When Natalie Chanin returned to her home in the Shoals 25 years ago, she never dreamt the idea she had for a T-shirt line would grow to become Alabama Chanin, let alone that her work, her brand and ...

The celebrated fashion designer Natalie Chanin shows a couple of visitors around the empty shell of the old Dr Pepper bottling plant, in the heart of her northwest Alabama hometown of Florence. She ...

SOUTH OF THE CITY: After a nine-year break from New York Fashion Week, Alabama Chanin will be back on the scene with a private showing Sept. 4 to Sept. 7 at the Bowery Hotel. The label’s namesake, ...

Helping Hands: Heading to aparty one night, Chanin handsewed a T-shirt and was hooked. With acostume design and fashion stylist background, Chanin joined forceswith co-founder Marone-Cinzano, a ...

"I GOT MY NICKNAME from biscuits," said Natalie "Alabama" Chanin, the force behind the handcrafted clothing and housewares company Alabama Chanin, based in Florence, Ala. She earned the moniker a ...

Natalie Chanin tried to quit Florence, Alabama, many times. She left her hometown in the fertile delta when it was still the t-shirt-making capital of the world for design school in North Carolina.

Natalie Chanin is on to her next project. Chanin is the founding designer of Project Alabama, which launched in 2001 and closed last year despite critical acclaim from retailers and press. Last month, ...