A collection of distinctive garments created with plant waste from the UK’s royal gardens is housed at the royal family’s Sandringham House in Norfolk, England.

The collection of 26 garments and accessories is part of an ongoing collaboration between pioneering green designers Vin + Omi and King Charles. who were brought together by their shared passion for sustainability when they met in 2018.

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The exhibition, entitled ‘Royal Garden Waste To Fashion’s Future’ runs from 23 March to 11 October in the Great Hall at Sandringham House.

The exhibition includes Vin + Omi’s first creations using petasite, an invasive Asian plant that loves marshes and grows alongside lakes in Sandringham, according to a report in The Independent newspaper.

The plant was used to create an elegant maxi dress, described as the world’s first.

Other garments have been created from plant materials from the royal gardens at the royal couple’s residence, Highgrove House in Gloucestershire.

After their meeting in 2018, the king invited Vin + Omi to his estate giving them the opportunity to dig through the plant debris from the garden and see what materials they could make from it.
The following year, designers with a new process transformed nettles they had collected into a flexible fabric. The material was used for a dress presented in the exhibition.

Other plant materials incorporated into their creations are anthriskus, willow, hydrangea and hollyhock.