King Charles organizes a fashion show

It’s time to put to rest the rumors that King Charles III has died, speculation that has certainly been fueled by his recent cancer diagnosis and by the bumbling reports of Catherine, Princess of Wales, as she recovers from surgery in January. According to Buckingham Palacethe king is alive – and apparently healthy enough to stage a fashion show.

An exhibition of garments made as part of a collaboration between Charles and designers Vin Cara and Omi Ong, called Vin + Omi, opens on Saturday at Sandringham Estate, the royal family’s private property in Norfolk County, England.

The designers created the clothes for the ‘Royal Garden Waste to Fashion’s Future’ exhibition using waste from the gardens of Sandringham and Highgrove House, Charles’ private home in Gloucester. Mr Cara and Mr Ong have been working with Charles, a keen gardener and long-time advocate of healthy urban planning and sustainability, since 2018 when, at a gala dinner, he suggested using discarded nettle from Highgrove as material for a collection they are showing in London .

Mr Cara and Mr Ong, whose Word has it that fans are too Kate Moss, Beyoncé and Michelle Obama have since built relationships with gardeners at the royal estates. But Charles’ personal involvement in the partnership has continued unabated.

“The king is constantly proposing new projects and ideas,” Mr. Cara said in an interview. He remembered how, after a walk around the grounds, Charles Castle May, a former royal residence in Scotland, sent them a supply of swamp cotton found on the property, which the designers used to make dresses. “We now have a free hand to experiment with waste material from his estates,” Mr Cara said.

This freedom has led to a number of innovations that were on display in the ‘Royal Garden Waste’ exhibition until October 11. These include a slim dress made from willow cellulose with a print made with oak galls and other natural materials from Highgrove; a flowing halter evening dress, knitted from willow and hydrangea cellulose, also from that estate; and a floor-length enclosure made from butterbur, a plant that multiplies along the lake at Sandringham.

Isaac Mizrahi can’t stop wearing clothes

Isaac Mizrahi has a request: don’t include him. Since closing his first eponymous fashion company in the late 1990s, the designer has juggled careers as a QVC merchant, stand-up comedian, podcaster, nightclub crooner and occasional actor.

It seems too much has never been enough for Mr. Mizrahi, 62, who recently doubled down on his focus on fashion, his first and most enduring love. “Most people associate me with clothes,” he said in an interview this week, not long after unveiling a racy new collection at social media.

The line’s smart gingham jackets and miniskirts; garden-fresh shirt dresses and A-line dresses; flared and cropped trousers; and Mariner T-shirts and polo tops all embody the punchy, uncluttered aesthetic with which Mr. Mizrahi made his name. It also includes accessories such as stud earrings and aviator sunglasses, which, along with the clothing, will initially be sold exclusively through the designer’s stores. website.

Mr. Mizrahi said the clothes, which cost between $50 and $150, are “more contemporary than anything I’m doing right now.” Indeed, the items are noticeably more youthful than those he sells on QVC, and their aesthetic taps into a mid-century influence that has recently resurfaced on the runways of pioneering designers like Marc Jacobs and Celine’s Hedi Slimane.

But Mr. Mizrahi, a child of the 1960s, insisted his line is “not mired in trends.” For him, the pieces – which are influenced by the wardrobes of women like Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Mary Tyler Moore, both from his mother’s generation – have more of a timeless quality.

“These clothes will never be anything classic,” he said.