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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 while on hiatus in New York City needed an outfit for a party. That's when she deconstructed and refashioned a T shirt using the quilting stitching techniques that she learned growing up in the Appalachian foothills of northern Alabama. Individual style soon turned into a high-demand fashion business. She eventually created a line of dresses, skirts, jackets and T shirts, but she couldn't find anyone...
Since taking her business home, Chanin has helped boost the local economy. About 200 contract employees now hand make each piece. "One dress took 16 women three weeks to make," says Chanin, 43. "We might make one coat only 20 times. That means there are only 20 in the world, and each garment is handmade by someone different." That rarefied notion has splashed Project Alabama across the pages of Vogue, Elle and the New York Times and onto the racks of high-end retailers like Barneys and Jeffrey in New York. "We haven't invented anything new," explains Chanin about...
...gets one. Morris, whose customary voice is that of cool detachment, allows a gee-whiz tone to mar the text: "Where else, in 1945, could you have your photograph taken by an unmanned machine (the Photomaton), or go to a theatre on the fiftieth floor of a skyscraper (the Chanin Building), or for that matter get an electric shock just from touching a door handle, in a city so charged with energy that the very air tingled with it?" Certainly not in drab, dreary, bombed-out London. And there are some unaccustomed small inaccuracies that further tarnish the golden glow...
...accomplished our goal (when Fitzgerald) left," said Cornell senior John A. Chanin '85, one of the protesters...
Among the great skyscrapers built in Manhattan during the 1920s and '30s, the 56-story Chanin Building has worn its years well-as has its creator and namesake, Irwin Chanin, 91. The architect is being honored by his old alma mater, New York's Cooper Union, in a retrospective. Chanin designed eight Broadway theaters and two monumental apartment houses on Central Park West. Perhaps his most cherished work is his personal suite of art deco offices on the top floor of the Chanin Building. The bathroom alone, done in glass, mirror and gold plate over bronze, cost...