During London Fashion Week designer Bethan Williams unveiled the new S/S21 collection: All Our Stories. The collection is inspired by Bethany’s continued work with East London grassroots organisation, The Magpie Project, a charity that supports women and children who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
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The collection focuses on five main storylines shared by the families of the Magpie Project, “AOS”, “Blessing”, “Dinosaurs” and “The Girl Who Cried Tiger”, as well as Bethany’s own, “The Sun and The Wind” childhood story.
She still wears stories passed down to her by her mother. Words that no longer fit the same way because life has stretched and changed its shape, but the moral of the story remains. Like the smile on her face. Her joy is new, even though the ending is not. She has not forgotten the promise she made, never to waste these old tattered tales but to tell them to her children – again and again. To get to the end and watch them smile. They are their stories now. They are All Our Stories
– Eno Mfon, Spoken Word Poet
