Comments on: Faux Ever: Inder Bedi of Matt & Nat

By: May Contest: MATT & NAT! « The Discerning Brute

May Contest: MATT & NAT! « The Discerning Brute — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:55:34 +0000

[...] our lucky, loyal readers. If you don’t know Matt & Nat yet, where the heck have you been? Read our interview with the creative genius behind the line, Inder Bedi, and find out why everyone from fashion icons [...]

By: Matt & Nat - Vegane Accessoires mit Stil | avangado.de - Das Magazin für Design und Lifestyle.

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:08:38 +0000

[...] die glänzende Knitteroptik. Vor acht Jahren bereits wurde Matt & Nat von Creative Director Inder Bedi gegründet. Das Konzept der Firma ist erfolgreich, und nicht nur tierliebe Fashionistas lieben [...]

By: Pax

Pax — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:05:57 +0000

I think the bags and wallets are great but becoming a bit overpriced and no longer accessible to many of those original Matt & Nat fans who have been purchasing the bags for many years now. Why make bags from cardboard when cardboard can be reycled to be reused as cardboard or other paper products? Water bottles can be remade into new waterbottles so why turn it into a bag that will eventually end up in a landfill? Now , if you find a way to make a fashionable bag from fossil fuel emissions–then you will have my attention. I do have a few concerns about the direction this company is heading. I stumbled on this blog last week and I did some investigating myself. Interesting.

http://www.midnightpoutine.ca/fashion/2007/11/matt_nat_animal_friendly_leather_from_montreal/

By: Hilary

Hilary — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:03:48 +0000

Mat & Nat shows that just because something is vegan, doesn’t mean it can’t be fashionable. There needs to be more companies like this, as it will make it easier for people to embrace veganism. Most of the faux leather accessories out there are hideous and cheap looking! My Mat & Nat bag is AMAZING, and I get compliments all the time. No one notices that it’s faux!

By: troy

troy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:44:53 +0000

nice to see matt & nat move to environmentally friendly materials

By: joshuakatcher

joshuakatcher — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:30:21 +0000

No one is forcing you to purchase a $150 bag, RuralVegan. High-end designers like Inder provide an image and a message… which clearly is not for people like you who have moved beyond materialism. Unfortunately in this culture, the majority of the people doing the most ecological damage have not moved beyond obsession with material objects, and have immense influence. These designers are “playing the game” and redefining what luxury means, rather than abstaining and trying to be puritanical (which typically results in an isolated social bubble). These talented communicators are reaching out to the typical consumers who respond to such images and objects of luxury with the hope that the message might also reach them…. it’s simply a hook.

Because our society is so obsessed with materialism and luxury why not show that one can, while working towards dismantling this destructive system as a whole, attempt to use the very symbology and dialect of mainstream values as a sort of Trojan Horse?

By: RuralVegan

RuralVegan — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:58:24 +0000

I don’t mean to knock on a vegan designer, but isn’t spending even $150 on a bag a ltitle bourgie?