Vin + Omi creates fashion collection from Prince Charles' stinging nettles
Nettles taken from Prince Charles' Highgrove estate were transformed into a collection of garments by sustainable design duo Vin + Omi, for a London Fashion Week show.
The fashion collection was showcased as part of Vin + Omi's Sting project, which has seen the duo develop 20 textiles and processes using stinging nettles since 2004.
"You can screw each other but stop fucking the planet; Screw yourselves but stop fucking the planet," said a voiceover, which was played just before models walked onto the catwalk for Vin + Omi's Spring 2020 show.
"When we first met Prince Charles, we discussed the research we were doing with UK plants; nettle, cow parsley, chestnuts, mushrooms and many others," the duo explained.
"He suggested that we take the large amount of nettle that he strims annually, and experiment further, so we did," they added. With the help of Oxford Brookes university students ? under the supervision of head gardener Debs Goodenough ? thousands of nettles were gathered from Prince Charles' gardens at Highgrove, located near Tetbury in Gloucestershire, England.
Vin + Omi employed the traditional method of making woven material from nettles, which involves stripping the nettles of their leaves, rhetting them on grass - exposing the material to moisture to induce partial rotting ? and then separating the fibre.
The duo developed a new eco-friendly method of processing the fibre, by way of "mercerisation", which gently strips th...
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