Ladies, contemporary sustainable fashion
Showing posts with label womenswear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label womenswear. Show all posts
Sunday, 18 February 2018
Thursday, 9 March 2017
#InternationalWomensDay
With International Women's Day being yesterday, we thought we would take the time to celebrate all things Female. Here at Madia & Matilda, we believe women should relish in the achievements of each other and celebrate our beauty and uniqueness as individual women and our clothes are designed to celebrate that.
Each lovely lady in your life - be it your gal pals, your mum, a sister or aunt, or even a celeb you look up to - is important in shaping who you are, and we want to celebrate YOU! To do this, women should support each others strengths and weakness and relish in our individuality and unique beauty.
Love Your Body.
Why not try some of our Lola's Apothecary scented candles to make loving your body just a little sweeter? A beauty label Loved by Emma Watson our Girl Crush and inspirational ethical advocate.
Another option would be to treat yourself, or a lovely lady in your life, to something from our new collection, available today. Can't choose? Why not pick up a voucher and choose later?
We are all about the good vibes!
Lets keep it going! Help us celebrate International Womens Day today by posting a selfie on Instagram with the hashtag #madiamatildababes #InternationalWomensDay and tagging @madiamatilda_insider for a chance to be featured on our Insider Instagram later this week!
Be proud of who you are!
Sincerely
Madia & Matilda
Thursday, 2 March 2017
NEWS - London Fashion Week Debut
AW17 SHOWCASE
Classy, quintessentially classic, contemporary and clean-cut... next season's style is one to watch out for.
We geared up and got ourselves down to Chelsea last week for the release of our next season's clothing and we are delighted to let you in on a little sneak peek!
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Elmira getting ready to shine |
The girls arrived to our location in the lovely area of Old Church Street, Chelsea at Haute Elan for an early start to get their hair and make-up done.
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It's the little things |
The lovely Linn having a giggle with Chloe.
Economic, social and environmental sustainability is something that is very important to us here at Madia & Matilda. Our new collection initiative is designed for simple-living.
The girls wore LilyFlo Jewellery, which you can find in our curated brands, accentuating their looks and with a little cuddle and gal time before taking to the stage.
Linn wearing one of our next season daily looks.
Oriana showing off our new dress collection.
Wanting a more classy look? Danielle shows us how it's done in this new top and skirt combo.
Oriana still slaying in Lilyflo's new season minimalist, urban-geometric pieces whilst having a little sit down mid-shoot.
Life isn't perfect but your outfit can be.
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From left: Danielle Esprit, Shardarae P, Linn B. Saeb, Oriana Findlay,
Véronica McBeal, Elmira Panjavi.
Designer & Director Shalize Nicholas, Jewellery - Lily Flo - Designer Diana Sherling, Photographer Rosalind Rosalind Alcazar & Claire Dytham, MUA Chloe Versaci, Showroom Haute Elan |
Pre-order the new collection in August.
Sincerely Madia & Matilda
Thursday, 28 January 2016
Thoughts on value
Have you ever wondered why there is often such a big price
difference between your average high street garment and a seemingly similar
product from a sustainable brand?
People often say sustainable/eco fashion is too expensive,
but is it? Or is fast fashion the costly one?
It depends how you measure it. Yes you can purchase a top
for £15- £20 from a big high street brand, wear it a couple of times, throw it
away, and as a consumer it hasn’t cost you much. However, it’s easy to forget
that garment was made by a human being and the amount of labour and energy that
goes into it staggering. For example, to turn a piece of cotton into a garment,
first it must be planted, harvested, taken to a factory to be processed and
spun into yarn. Then it’s taken to another factory, woven into cloth, sent to a
dye mill, dyed and finished. Then it is sold to a manufacturer who must create
an original design and pattern, test for fit and performance, cut and make the garment,
ship and then market it, all before reaching the customer. People are involved
for its whole journey, people who deserve a fair price for their labour. But
unfortunately, to produce a garment with all of those processes involved and
still sell it for a price we are willing to pay; someone along the line is
missing out.
The sad truth is what we class, as a reasonable, average price, is
in fact, artificially low. These cheap prices shouldn’t be the norm; they are
wrong, not the more ‘expensive’ eco brands. They are the ones causing costly
damage to the earth and to the workers. For fashion to be sustainable it’s not
meant to be fast, throw away and cheap. We’ve been trained to buy quantity over
quality. Somewhere along the way we’ve lost sight of what is best for us and
the environment.
This is where sustainable fashion comes in, as it tries to
change perceptions of what is expensive and go back to valuing the right
things.
Sustainable fashion tends to be more expensive due to a number of
factors:
Time – As a small
brand it takes time to create new and original designs from scratch, develop a
pattern and manufacture in a smaller environment.
Fair trade- It is
cheaper to employ people abroad to make clothes, where minimum wages are a lot
less than here in the UK. For example, an employer in China only has to pay
their garment worker 60p an hour, whereas in the UK the minimum wage is £6.70.
When buying from a sustainable clothing company that manufactures their clothes
in the UK, you know the workers have been paid a fair wage for their labour.
Economies of sale-
It’s cheaper to produce mass quantities of clothing if you are a large company.
Small scale companies have to pay more to produce smaller quantities.
Quality – Finally,
when buying from a sustainable brand, the garments have longer life spans and
are well made.
To find out more about our thoughts on value, check out our youtube
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To find out more about our thoughts on value, check out our youtube
Sincerely Madia & Matilda
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Style - Gift Selection
December is
here and where has the year gone. Coming into our 3rd year at Madia
& Matilda, things have definitely changed and developed, moving in to the New
Year; Christmas festivities has got us feeling all nostalgic. With the present of
new chapter, brings our thoughts to our gift guide, from our curated selection. We want to share our favourite selection of gift ideas with you.
"Tis the
season to be jolly", and what better way of celebrating with family and friends
than with this
flattering dress is just what every girl needs, wear it with a necklace and clutch
bag
The Fahra & Sapphire dress is
made from sustainable materials, made in Britain
Saphire - Gathered Strap Dress Fahra - Velvet Dress
Keepwood have a great range of sunglasses for those who are seeking some winter sun. We’ve picked our must-have sunglasses for the winter.
Handcrafted Beach wood glasses
Keepwood - Handcrafted Beach wood glasses, their mission is to handcraft glasses without environmental impact of traditional eyewear.
Maja necklace
These two necklaces
are hand crafted, from our new curated brand – Mara – necklace a British Jewellery
label hand crafted in
Just because
we love a charm bracelet, this perfect chic accessory is for a conscious style
lover.
Daphne
necklace - Maja necklace - Foxglove Bracelet
Not sure what to get that special someone, our gift vouchers are a great way to tell them you care, especially for those fashion/ethical conscious, shopaholics
£25 - £50 - £75 - £100
If you have any questions about our gift vouchers email, info@madiamatilda.co.uk
If you have any questions about our gift vouchers email, info@madiamatilda.co.uk
Wild Flower and Lavender
Candles to keep
that feel good moment or to set the family festivities a light, feefee and lolly
bee candles are made in Britain, with soy wax, a natural and organic candle
Check out the
link above
If you have a
dress that you just love, which could come out or one more dance, you can
always book in with our alterations service. For further information take a
look here
To shop any of the items in the gift guide, visit madiamatilda.co.uk. Now all there is left, is relaxing with some mulled wine and mince pies
Wishing you a
very special Christmas
Sincerely Madia & Matilda
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
Style with Conscience
Our sustainable clothing label, was asked to join the Green Organisation to present the Awards for this year’s event; held at the Empire Casino for the Green Apple Awards. Showing our Resort 16 collection on our team of beautiful models.
An awards, which recognize the hard work and dedication to green and environmental causes or business schemes.
The Green Apple Environment Awards were launched in 1994 by The Green Organisation and have become well established as one of the most popular environmental campaigns in the world. Their awards are now in their twenty-second year and well established as one of the major environmental recognition schemes, both in the UK and internationally.
In addition to this we have opened a pop up shop in Strouds merrywalks shopping center, starting out as a one month appearance but then extended into two. Not only do we stock Madia & Matilda clothing we also believe in sporting local businesses an enterprises, such as Kastali bespoke storage solutions, Nicola cook handbags, haberdashery and twist lampshades and Sheri's attic antics. Everything is made to order with an alteration service along side, in keeping with our ecofriendly ethos - making your unloved garments loved. Pop in and find us on the highstreet.
37 kingstreet,
Stroud
GL5 3DA
Sincerely Madia & Matilda
e:: info@madiamatilda.co.uk w:: www.madiamatilda.co.uk/
Saturday, 23 May 2015
Beyond Indulgence - London Chelsea - Belgrave - Knightsbridge
Visits to London, sees us in Chelsea at an exclusive members only club Grace the epitome of calm tranquility and well-being.
http://www.gracebelgravia.com/
near Sloane square and the Saatchi Gallery. For those who like a arts and culture.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/Shows-Events/RHS-Chelsea-Flower-Show
http://www.saatchigallery.com/
Then cross town at Buckingham Palace a worthwhile visit, if you'd like the real tourist trip.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/Shows-Events/RHS-Chelsea-Flower-Show
Sincerely Madia & Matilda
Monday, 20 April 2015
We are Sustainable fashion - #Making Better Choices
Impact of Fast Fashion
Those quick buys from the online stores to the high street stores, where prices are cheap and quality possibly matches this too. We all keep topping our warping wardrobes up with clothes we may only wear a few times.
This creates a huge amount of wastage, approximately 350,000 pounds (£140 million) of clothing and textiles are improperly discarded per year per person! Just imagine the amount we all throw across the world.
Due to fast fashion, the demand for man-made fibres has doubled in the last 25 years. This means a higher amount of harmful chemicals are being distributed into our world everyday just in production, these chemicals are then transferred onto our skin when we wear the clothing, and finally when we throw them are harming the environment in landfills.
Over consumption
Clothing is getting cheaper and cheaper by the day, and we all love it! We think ‘perfect, saving myself some money AND look amazing!’ Although weigh up what you spend and how much you buy… are you actually saving? Fast fashion is addictive; spend less, buy more! Just imagine the wastage it causes.
Why not buy timeless pieces that are great quality, always in fashion AND friendly to our environment? It’s WIN, WIN, WIN!
This is the future of fashion. Living a more sustainable lifestyle.
Friendly Fibres
By using fibres that are sustainable and eco friendly, we are preventing harmful chemicals being distributed into our atmosphere and water at production, and preventing harmful chemicals being then transferred onto our skin when we wear them.
Sustainable fibres can include;
- Organic cotton
- Recycled Polyester
- Hemp
- Seacell
- Wool
- Ramie
- Linen
Our Mission
At Madia & Matilda, we join the movement to a sustainable world. Looking good doesn’t have to damage the precious world we live in. We use sustainable fibres, alongside recycled clothing and end of material rolls from fashion rolls, that otherwise would have been wasted.
Madia & Matilda: we are sustainable fashion #Making Better Choices
Sincerely Madia & Matilda
Madia & Matilda
Sustainable Clothing
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