Tag Archive for the term: matt and nat

The Worn Fashion Journal editors have raised what I think is an important issue on their blog, about Advertorials - advertising that looks like editorial content. In conversation we’ve discussed the especially dictatorial nature of this practice in some women’s fashion magazines, and the scary way this can manipulate the availability of ideas about identity [...]

As shown in Tessa’s fantastic video, she and Risa braved the first day of the Matt & Nat sample sale — the crowds, oh my! — to pick up two boxes of bags for the Indyish team, leading to quite the joyful meeting that evening. But if you paid attention to the video, you saw that Marilis and I weren’t quite as jumpy as the rest… Our bags weren’t in the boxes!

Yesterday, Risa and I took the bus up to the garment warehouses of Chabanel in north Montreal to pick up 2 boxes of Matt and Nat bags for the team. It was the first day of Matt and Nat’s Sample Sale and (mainly young and female) folks were lined up along the street and all [...]

The Matt and Nat vegan leather designer bags made here in Montreal have a pretty active following, because they’re quite stylin and make you feel like you’re doing some good while looking so fine. They emphasize Choice - it’s written right on their bags: Choose to Make a Difference, a friendly fonty kick towards empowerment. [...]

The skies may have been grey, but long-time mobile talkers came out in droves to hand off their old cell phones, some so old and brick-like that the team just had to keep them out of the boxes, on display for those too young to remember to marvel at. Everyone who donated a phone was given a Matt & Nat eco-friendly shopping bag… Y’know, so we can avoid adding more plastic bags to landfills?

Judging from the popularity of the last blog post about a Matt and Nat sample sale, I figured people might be interested in finding out about another one:

Check out their website for a preview of the beautiful vegan leather and linen bags that they have. Your best bet is to go on day 1 for [...]

Montreal-based designer vegan leather company Matt & Nat believes that recycling matters. Next Wednesday, 30 April, they’ll be hosting a sidewalk sale-esque cell phone recycling bash outside Sun Youth on St-Urbain.

Matt and Nat are Montrealers who make beautiful, animal friendly, leather-looking bags, including one called the Trainspotting bag, which I covet, and one called the Big Buddha Black, and and yeah. I dig them. So it’s with pleasure that I fill you in on the hot tip shot to me by Mary Jane Caro: there’s [...]