Material World @ Kew Gardens
Life is like Compost top V3.0 and the Trellis dress displayed as part of: Growing the Next Era of Fashion by London College of Fashion
'Innovative designs and forward-thinking displays imagining a more responsible future for fashion.'
'Discover Material World, a festival of art, fashion and horticulture inside the stunning Temperate House.
Step into this thought-provoking exhibition that reveals the connections between plants, textiles and sustainability, and discover how nature inspires the clothes we wear and the futures we can create.
Drawing from Kew's renowned scientific collections, Material World explores the intertwined threads of nature, culture and creativity, and allows us to discover how we can all wear a more sustainable future.'
More information can be found here: https://www.kew.org/kew-gardens/whats-on/material-world
(20 September to 2 November 2025)
Image, left: Oliver Dixon
Trellis dress
Freeform crochet dress with detachable crocheted trellis style 'plant pots' ; Pea plants grown on wool growing in them.
Wool, alpaca, reclaimed sari silk ribbons and peas.
(2024-2025)
Life is like compost top
V3.0, Pink oyster mushrooms colonized on freeform crochet dress.
Lotus flower fibre, British wool, homegrown indigo, pink oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus djamor).
(2025)
