ORIGINAL RENEGADE / WORCESTERSHIRE
Our Story
An independent graphic label built around original artwork and the clothes it ends up on.
01 / ORIGIN
THE SHOP CAME AFTER THE DRAWINGS.
Original Renegade started with artwork, not a plan to build a clothing brand. I was drawing the things I kept coming back to visually — tattoo flash, old skate graphics, signwriting, gig merch and the kind of images that still work when you strip everything unnecessary away.
The clothing came from wanting somewhere for those drawings to live. The aim was never to fill a catalogue. It was to make graphic pieces I would actually wear and keep control of how the work moved from screen to garment.
02 / THE WORK
THE GRAPHIC HAS TO WORK ON THE GARMENT.
A drawing can be good and still make a bad T-shirt. Scale, placement, weight, negative space and the blank underneath it all matter. That is the part I care about: getting the artwork and the garment to feel like one thing rather than a picture dropped onto fabric.
03 / PRODUCTION
KEPT CLOSE TO THE WORK.
The artwork is developed here and the clothing is printed and finished in Worcestershire. Keeping production close means I can change a print, reject a result or rework a colour without putting distance between the drawing and the finished piece.
It also means the range can stay focused. Restocks are selective, new pieces are added because they earn their place, and nothing needs to exist just to make the shop look fuller.
04 / NOW
SMALL ENOUGH TO CHANGE THINGS.
Original Renegade is still independent and hands-on. That is useful more than it is romantic: the work can change quickly, bad ideas can be dropped, and good ones do not have to survive a committee before they get made.