Underneath Los Angeles’ surface of glamour and celebrity lies a spirit of charitable and social good, a goodness that can be found in organizations & projects like Abject Object.

Project H, a non profit dedicated to bringing design services to social service organizations & schools, is working with Los Angeles’ Downtown Women’s Center — a place that is working to end homelessness among women.

Their participatory project, called Abject Object, fuses together fashion design, retail, education, and empowerment.

Through the project, women sew, produce, and sell  items they’ve created together.  They currently have four, multi-use products on sale, all made from donated and recycled materials: 1) a bag that also serves as a hammock, 2) a scarf that can also serves to store items, 3) a hooded garment that can turn into a tote bag, and 4) a cloth mat that can be broken down into pot holders.

The Abject Object designs will be sold online and in local shops. Proceeds will go back to the women who made the items.

Project H hopes that other organizations will want to join in with the Abject Object project and has developed an information & resource kit for local homeless shelters who want to run something similar.

Abject Object brings together the local community, social good, and fashion enterprise — pretty cool, right?

Abject Object from Ken Mori on Vimeo.