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 ...

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 ...

PROJECT ALABAMA was about ecologically conscious, socially conscious fashion before it was, well, fashionable. In 2000, Natalie Chanin -- after 20 years’ designing in New York and Europe -- came home ...

Alabama Chanin, the Florence-based couture fashion design house, has sewn another bead into its weighty crown. The company created the stenciled, beaded blue and white tree skirt that completes the ...

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.

Designer Natalie Chanin has transformed the appeal of handmade clothes into an economic-redevelopment model with her Project Alabama line. Chanin is a former film stylist (she handled costumes) who, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Designer Natalie Chanin has transformed the appeal of handmade clothes into an economic-redevelopment model with her Project Alabama line. Chanin is a former film stylist (she handled costumes) who ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (TENNESSEE VALLEY LIVING) - Born and raised in the south, Natalie Chanin is a fashion designer known all over the country. Chanin was born in Florence, Alabama and spent many years ...