{WEBSHOP LAUNCH!} Live Now!!!

www.madamchino.com is now live with webshop full of clothing and accessories 100% USA-Made from recycled T-shirts.

Eco, sustainable, and ethical fashion industries are rooted and growing, ground-up across the globe with increased awareness of the ongoing atrocities caused by fast fashion. Textile recycling is the oldest form of recycling and yet has the least implemented programs in current US municipalities. 11 million tons of textiles are thrown in actual trashes each year, making up 5.2% of our solid waste in the USA.

Madam Chino shares a complex and original USA-Made Brand that is constructed completely of recycled t-shirt textiles. Hand-chosen materials are sourced from a USA textile sorting facility and transformed with inventive reuse and skilled labor, into artful wearable forms with little-to-no waste. The brand offers a reclaim program for used Madam Chino garments, accepts local donations of T-shirt fabrics, and provides new styles and colors seasonally.

The USA-made ethically created fashion label of Vanessa Devaki Andrew, 32 year old reuse entrepreneur, welcomes the next decade of the brand with a user-friendly website offering a wide variety of apparel products created from 100% recycled T-shirts handmade to order; incorporating unprecedented product quality and quantity control for the field of one-of-a-kind handmade garments using up-cycled post-consumer textiles. For eco-friendly shoppers, the Madam Chino E-tail experience offers a unique opportunity to purchase classic and trendy jersey-knit active and casual wear and accessories in multiple sizes and colors, both wholesale and individually, all while diverting and converting waste into useable recycled forms at a fair and affordable price.


Vanessa herself shown wearing a Choptop Crop Top and Basic Biker Shorts

Thank you for your continued support and interest.

All the Best,
Madam Chino

{LINDSEY in MADAM CHINO} Webshop Product Shots

Our lovely lady Lindsey came into the studio and shot a few pieces. Oh how we love her! Can't wait to release our website this Saturday!!! See you soon. Check out her photo set HERE


XO,
Madam Chino

{WEB SHOP} Progress Report

The Madam Chino web-shop catalogues and chronicles every detail of each post-consumer t-shirt product we produce: collecting and archiving visual and mathematical information on all aspects of each item including both measurements of size, shape, color, wear and fit, as well as time measurements on production tasks to create fair individual and wholesale pricing. We are tracking a lot of information! Have a look at our spreadsheet and all the tabs:

While no small task and with thoroughness a must, we are working on closing the gaps on most of our unfinished data so that we may present the public with our eco-sustainable recycled t-shirt wearables on February 1st 2014 at high noon.

Here is an example of our product color overlay alongside the colorspreads showing our products in multiple color choices.


Each product also contains a number of model shots! We are currently working on producing and curating each of these images for our web shop and PDF look book!

We will continue to add new and updated products often and seasonally until we are so exhausted we become our own compost. Please stay tuned, bookmark our shop early on the web and our blog too, follow us on instagram, twitter, and like us on Facebook



view a few of our web product model photo shoots HERE, HERE, HERE

We sincerely appreciate all of your interest and support in creating unique, accessible, affordable fashion from post-consumer products.

All the Best,
Madam Chino

{ORANGE CRUSH} poppin'

Madam Chino is T-Shirt recycling. Photos for our soon to be fully accessible web shop. See our full set HERE

Clothing: MADAM CHINO
Model: Stephanie Renee Alderson
Photo/Styling: Vanessa Devaki Andrew

Pictured: High Waisted Hot Shorts, Crop Top, Drug Tug, T-Pom Necklet, Hair-Bow Band






XO,
Madam Chino

{HOVERCRAFT!} Wrap Up!

Hover Craft in its 4th year was a bigger success than imagined, despite the snow, which started at load in and didn't stop all day.

Here is a quick clip through the windows at 10am


Hover Craft was at Turner Hall this year. The most amazing venue with an Old Milwaukee feeling. We had lights, and banners, and bunting aglow!




By the time the doors opened there was 3" on the ground of light fluffy snow that was not easy to drive in. But people were still lining up for a swag bag!


There were amazing food and coffee vendors, impressive crafts of all kinds. There also was a make-n-take in balcony featuring Paper Polyhedra Ornaments!


This wise woman purchased one of the Madam Chino rescued T-shirt dresses featuring Crate and Barrel satin napkins as the skirting!


Shouts out to these lovely ladies, who make work a pleasure. Check out their work from left to right...

Ashley Smith, Madam Chino, Alyssa Schulte, Cortney Heimerl

Check out the whole set, photos by MIKE G on cortney's page HERE

Check out the HOVERCRAFT BLOG and sign up for our mailing list to stay informed on Hover Craft for next year!

ALL THE LOVE,
Madam Chino

{HOLIDAY ROUND-UP} Look Nook in Season

While the year makes a mad dash for the finish line, we are getting ready for the many events purveying locally-sourced holiday gifts. Without alluding to being santa's elves themselves, we'll admit to their same "work hard/play hard" philosophy.


We put the finishing touches on 10 new Women's Midwestern Hoodies, six of which are being sold in conjunction with the Madam Chino Men's Collection at Third Coast Style in Milwaukee Wi


Here's a shortlist of the events Madam Chino has in the line up for you, in order of appearance:
1. ART VS CRAFT The grand finale at Harley Museum
2. PAPER MOON a fashion illustration show of works at Third Coast Style in downtown Milwaukee
3. HOVERCRAFT The 4th Annual maker's event at Turner Hall Ballroom
4. GIFT SHOP A holiday pop-up gift shop boutique at Look Nook for last minute shoppers

ART VS CRAFT
Madam Chino has been participating in Art Vs. Craft for each of it's 10 years, either as a solo act or with Fasten Collective starting in 2003. An incredible show that will be truly irreplaceable in the urban makers economy, not to be missed!
Art vs Craft on the web: ART VS CRAFT's BLOG


PAPER MOON
As a visual artist working in fashion, drawing as a medium isn't lost in the sheets. Bringing a warm hand-drawn feel to digital graphic art and fashion illustration, with limited edition 8.5 x 11 inch Giclee Prints available on reserve through January. Come to the Gallery Night opening if you miss the holiday bustle on Friday January 17th 2014 5pm-7pm



HOVERCRAFT
Hover Craft is a friendly holiday bazaar for emerging and seasoned local makers alike. This year's event is at Turner Hall on Sunday December 8th from noon-6pm. Check out our amazing vendor list at the HOVERCRAFT BLOG
Here is the image for our locally donated prize-filled swag bags available to our 1st 50 shoppers! Come early! Didn't get a swag bag? First 100 shoppers get a prize Community Coupon with many amazing specials from local businesses just for you!

Show us what you're making or what you've bought at #hovercraftmke. Stay tuned to @madamchino on instagram for the updates on the cardboard cut out animals, make-n-take booth, signage, and community coupon!

GIFT SHOP
Don't be worried about last minute little gifts for friends and family, we have you covered, literally, with our 2-day pop-up that includes free gift wrap! Stocked with weather-wear utility and affordability, we refuse to leave you in the cold!


As we say to our unfinished garments,
"See you on the flip"

XO,
Madam Chino

MADAM CHINO Shop Status

Madam Chino's LOOK NOOK Summer 2013 Traveling Showcase has come to a close. LOOK NOOK in the Fortress will continue by appointment only until further notice, while we are working diligently on our website! Please contact Madam Chino at madamchino@gmail.com for appointments!

We've been busy updating our shop look with new hand-painted signs and bamboo/canvas racks for our traveling showcase display.



The Madam Chino Website is nearly complete! Here, we are using this light filled room for product photos which will be converted in photoshop to all available colors!

A quick preview of how the site is being laid out


The Madam Chino Fall 2013 Women's Collection includes Scoop-Back 3/4 sleeve dresses with assorted skirtings. Pictured below is the fall garment tag featuring Brittany Peters


Currently creating women's sizes in these plaid flannel hooded jackets made of all recycled textiles, that will be available for purchase at this years Art vs. Craft


Meet my darling new shop assistant and intern Stephanie Alderson, who arrived last week all the way from Jacksonville, FL to work in the Madam Chino Production Facility, shown here chop sawing a large dowel into wooden buttons, and serging pockets for the next run of Women's Jackets

Stephanie likes coffee, sleeping, black lipstick, biking, being outdoors, all cats especially her kitty "Catter", winter (she moved here from Florida), her fiancee Jeff, and sewing with Madam Chino!


Contact us for appointments at madamchino@gmail.com and find us on the web:
INSTAGRAM
FACEBOOK
WEBSITE

BEST,
Madam Chino

LBD VINTAGE SHOP UPDATE: Tuesday October 15th 9pm CST

On Tuesday OCTOBER 15th at 9pm CST, (just in time for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Holidays and New Years Eve) a collection of LBD's Little/Long Black Vintage Dresses will be available online at www.rigattiere.etsy.com featuring model Che Mackintosh.

Preview the collection early HERE



See you soon!

{FALLING IN PLACE} Madam Chino Fall 2013 Dress Collection

DRESSES: MADAM CHINO
PHOTOS/STYLING: VANESSA DEVAKI ANDREW
MODEL: CHE MACKINTOSH

MADAM CHINO DRESSES FEATURE 3/4 SLEEVES, LOW, DARTED BACK WITH ELASTICIZED BAND CONNECTING THE SHOULDERS AT THE NECKLINE, AND ARE CREATED OUT OF 100% RECYCLED MATERIALS IN SMALL, MEDIUM AND LARGE. CURRENTLY AVAILABLE AT THIRD COAST STYLE IN THE FASHION DISTRICT OF MILWAUKEE WI AND WHERE EVER MADAM CHINO CAN BE FOUND.

{T-YARN FACTORY} at Third Coast Style

Madam Chino will be presenting T-Yarn Factory at Milwaukee's new THIRD COAST STYLE located in Downtown Milwaukee's Fashion District on Water Street between Michigan and Saint Paul, a T-shirt transformative experience for young and old!

T-SHIRT YARN FACTORY
Learn the tricks to creating continuous strands of your own yarn from tubular bodices of clothing and flat swaths of scrap fabric, and spooling them. Learn to crochet by hand or with large hooks to make a rug!

{LEARN TO SEW!} with Madam Chino!

Madam Chino is teaching two workshops at the UWM Studio Arts and Craft center this October and November, listed on pages 9 and 12 in this fabulous class booklet! Each is two back-to-back evenings.

SEWING 101: TIPS AND TRICKS
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9th & 10th from 5:30-8pm
Beginning sewing for more than just beginners. Learn important sewing vocabulary, and the tips and tricks for efficient snipping and stitching. Create and reverse narrow strips without a hanger! Get even pleats without doing math! Get to know your household machine; use the many available machine feet to create various edgings, use it to sew on buttons and buttonholes, zippers, and to do professional looking hemming with ease. Create samples in addition to a lined satchel that applies these skills to take home.

PATTERN MAKING FUNDAMENTALS
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6th & 7th from 5:30-8pm
Learn the basics of pattern making to create form-fitting patterns based on your own measurements! Apply anthropometrics to draft flat patterns that use simple graphing in addition to special darting techniques to bring 2-D into 3-D. Create a block pattern for future use and appropriation, and test it out on a stretch knit garment. Use draping techniques on a dress form to add-on to your item. Study your favorite garments and swipe patterns to recreate them!

Contact info for the Craft Centre is located in the back of their booklet!

{MADAM CHINO} Satin-Printed Loop-Fold Garment Tags

Gorgeous new satin-printed loop-fold garment tags with content and care instructions, the grand finale on each piece.



Getting pretty for the grand opening of Third Coast Style this September 7th with new Madam Chino Fall 2013 3/4-Sleeve Scoop-Back Dresses. Plus the very last Art vs. Craft on Saturday, November 30th, 2013 from 10-6pm at the Harley-Davidson Museum®!!!

BRADY STREET ART MARKET!

Brady Street Local Art Market at Harley Fest
Looking for a limited number of vendors who are interested in vending at Harley Fest on Brady. They call it mini Sturgis for a reason - if you think Harley riders from across the country will be interested in buying your work-- shoot me an email!

Here are some details:

The market will be in the vacant lot on the corner of Brady and Warren Ave, right next to Jimmy John's.

It will be from 2:00 - 8:00pm on Friday, August 30th and Saturday August 31st. Load in will be from 12:00 - 1:30pm.

It is $50 to vend BOTH DATES. On a case by case basis I will consider vendors who would like to do just one day - the fee for ONLY ONE DAY is $35.

If you are interested in vending, please reply to this email with the following:

NAME
BUSINESS NAME
EMAIL
PHONE
WHICH DAYS OR BOTH

3-5 IMAGES OF YOUR WORK OR A LINK TO YOUR WEBSITE THAT SHOWS WHAT YOU DO.

If you are interested, please respond immediately to ceheimerl@gmail.com

{BLUE PRINCE} Look Nook Drawing Plans

The original drawings for the LOOK NOOK space have been unearthed:

These are plans for quartered slats of wood rounds to be used for corner shelving. If only a chainsaw was available. This never came to fruition, but a good idea the same.


This is the room drawing. Look Nook originally started in a the small 6x10 foot room which slowly built out into the space where the shoe racks are.


These trees were painted on the walls of the front room on all four sides. View the final in this MAKING OF THE LOOK NOOK BLOGPOST and this POST FINISHED LOOK NOOK TOUR BLOGPOST!


LOOK NOOK is closed in the summer, and will be open by appointment throughout the fall. Please contact Madam Chino for an appointment at madamchino@gmail.com

We are steady working on our website and building it from the ground up! Madam Chino is hard at work to bring the best of recycled t-shirts to the public worldwide.

X,
Madam Chino

{HOVERCRAFT 2013} Call For Artists!

SHOW DATE: SATURDAY DECEMBER 7th, NOON-6PM
DEADLINE TO APPLY: SEPTEMBER 9th, 2013
EMAIL APPLICATIONS TO: hovercraftmke@gmail.com
SEE the HOVERCRAFT BLOG for rules and details!

{WILDFLOWERS} Madam Chino Summer 2013

Enjoy your summer in nature!
Model: DakotaSky Bowen
Clothing: Madam Chino
Photos and Styling: Vanessa Devaki Andrew