GET MOVING // Thank you MKE for being an awesome place to live, grow, serve & thrive. Madam Chino is 18 years old & developed into the sustainable clothing construction, repair, and education hub it has become today from $100 in 2002. Bootstrapping isnt just determination: the small businesses that survive are a reflection of symbiosis & the love a community breathes into them. Despite a pandemic, bcoming homeless, losing my mps work & service industry job, MC had its best year yet providing services to my Brewers Hill community and beyond. Unfortunately for me, the shop is being forced to close on Saturday December 20th thanks to free agent "Milwaukee Buck" @PatConnaughton & his out of town development company @threeleafdevelopment who plan to rip down this beautiful cream city brick piece of milwaukee history built in 1906 that houses 6 small women and minority owned businesses all serving local community; in the middle of winter & a pandemic to build a 4 story luxury condominium. MC operations is uniquely diversified & materials-based, & in a virtual world, finding an affordable place to house this whole material process has become impossible anywhere in the area. I am grateful for the time ive had in this space to present my best self, all in one place, & showcase what is possible to myself, the public, and on my taxes. MC is in the process of buying a small affordable warehouse building on the Northside, so that i can house my operations. I will stop marketing t-shirt reconstructed clothing made to order & will not have a retail location, but want to continue to offer alterations & custom services from a mobile location, create unique clothing from reuse fibers to present virtually & am looking for local shops to team up with to consign, do custom products, classes, & alterations in & out while i transition in a difficult time to find an affordable centrally located office/retail location. MC is open Saturdays noon to 5pm. fight monoculture!! diversity is our strength!! please support small, handmade, and local in general, and at MC in this location while you can! Vintage clothing is 50% off through December 20th! 📸: @marijoanna2 (at Madam Chino) https://www.instagram.com/p/CH470BinrLQ/?igshid=1o8pb7pvnevqh