King Charles Breaks Into Fashion World with Eco-Designers and Prepares for Show

British King Charles is collaborating with eco-designers on an amazing fashion project using milk cartons.

King Charles is making his mark on the fashion industry in a surprising way, People writes. Collaborating with eco-designers Vin + Omi, the king provided hundreds of milk cartons from his Sandringham estate to produce an innovative ‘skin’ that will be part of their upcoming fashion show.

Although the designers have been collaborating with the King for the past six years, this is the first material of its kind to be created from plastic milk cartons destined for landfill. The British designers, who are considered to be the eco-rebels of the fashion industry, are delighted with the result.

‘It's like sponge leather - it's very soft, it looks and feels like leather,’ Omi said on 19 February, the eve of London Fashion Week. ‘It took us about a year and a half, and it's the first fabric like this in the world!’

This is the second time the designers have collaborated with King Charles to create a brand new eco-friendly fabric from waste. In 2023, they worked with Sandringham's head gardener to create a golden dress made from the leaves of buttercup, a weed that grows on the lakeside of the King's estate in Norfolk.

In 2018, Prince Charles met Omi at a fashion event. He was impressed by his innovative ideas. Since then, Prince Charles has granted the designers a pass to his gardens and keeps in touch with them, often offering ideas for different plants or waste that they can use.

In the past six years, the designers have been able to create whimsical dresses from thousands of collected nettle leaves, brooches from plastic plant trays and a sweater with the word Resist made from a pile of discarded royal horsehair salvaged from compost heaps in Sandringham and Highgrove.

The design studio's innovative works are even collected by museums such as the V&A in London.