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natalie chanin picks up every stitch

May 21, 2008 12:33 pm

Stitchbok

Both geographically and culturally, the fifth floor of Barneys is a long way from Florence, Alabama. But at yesterday’s Alabama Chanin trunk show, designer Natalie Chanin was dishing out the Southern hospitality as she walked shoppers through custom orders of her limited-edition, hand-sewn pieces. The DIY-minded, meanwhile, could pick up a copy of Chanin’s recently released “Alabama Stitch Book” and learn how to custom-make an Alabama Chanin-style skirt or dress for herself. “You know, our mission as a company is to save these traditions,” Chanin said. “And our philosophy is to savor them. But the only way to make a movement is to teach women the handicraft, so they can pass that knowledge down the way my grandmother passed it down to me.”

—Maya Singer

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