Project ReGo X CQ Studio

ReGo means “to put aside our ego and go again and again through a continued process of change both in oneself and in society.” With this as a starting point for Our Story in the Making, the cross-disciplinary project has come to embody collective action as it unites 

London College of Fashion students with East London-based brands, all in the aim of affecting positive social change. Having seen the negative impact of knife crime on the local community, the project’s intention was to counter the problem through fashion and creativity.

The idea was to repurpose knives from amnesty bins alongside other urban waste as inspiration for (and to be utilised within) clothes, accessories, and jewellery. Co-created by young people from East London and local brands. We engineered the transformation of objects of potential violence into something beautiful. ReGo intended to “connect creatives across disciplines with the aim to illustrate to young people how they can control the direction their lives take by leveraging the power of fashion, making, and storytelling to shift the prevailing narrative around youth violence.”

For this collaboration we worked with young East Londonder Maria Isabel to create a top using upcycled fabrics, Detox Sequins, Flax Fur and Metal Sequins that were cut from knives.