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When Dame Prue Leith agreed to take part in a fashion show fit for a king, she was not expecting to be wearing His Majesty’s rubbish.
But just a day after turning 85, the Bake Off star appeared on the catwalk at the Vin + Omi show at London Fashion Week in a dress which was made with organic waste from the King’s Sandringham estate.
She told the Mail: ‘Better I wear the King’s rubbish than it just goes to landfill.’
Channelling 1980s punk chic, the pink satin coat dress was made using black walnut, beetroot madder and oak recycled from the royal Norfolk pile. Dame Prue completed the look with rubber flip flops and statement sunglasses in a bid to be ‘comfortable’ as she walked at the The Other House, Kensington.
She said: ‘You know how models never smile well. I just grinned like a Cheshire cat the whole time. I was just trying to keep up, not fall over.’
The Bake Off judge, who only hours earlier had stepped off a long-haul Qantas flight from Australia, agreed to take part in the show titled Kaos on the condition that she wouldn’t have to walk up any stairs, admitting that she struggles to keep up with the ‘long-legged models’ and gets ‘left behind.’
But this isn’t Dame Prue’s first foray into fashion with Vin + Omi – the King’s go-to eco-designers who have collaborated with His Majesty since 2019.
While last year Dame Prue was ‘sexed up’ in a figure-hugging black latex dress with a smokey eye and a striking red lip, this time they wrapped her in a floor-length gown from made from processed waste milk cartons from the Sandringham visitor centre.
Channelling 1980s punk chic, the pink satin coat dress was made using black walnut, beetroot madder and oak recycled from the royal Norfolk pile
Dame Prue completed the look with rubber flip flops and statement sunglasses in a bid to be ‘comfortable’ as she walked at the The Other House, Kensington
Last year Dame Prue was ‘sexed up’ in a figure-hugging black latex dress with a smokey eye and a striking red lip
The mother-of-two added: ‘They produced this incredibly elegant, beautifully structured, amazingly well-made dress.’
The television chef said that she had become more fearless as she has gotten older.
She added: ‘This morning, there was a comment on Twitter about how brave I am to wear a bathing costume when I’m 85 – well what do they expect me to wear in the sea? Full length trousers and a polo neck? I’d rather have the sun on my arms. Never mind about the wrinkles!’
The grandmother-of-five thinks that young people today are more fashion conscious than when she was younger but fears young women can become too obsessed with how they look.
She said: ‘I do worry about girls who spend hours and hours trying to look good so that they can take a selfie, so that they’ll get lots of likes. That seems a very unhealthy trend.’
The Bake Off judge also had some tips for the older generation.
She said: ‘The older you get, the more you need colour. Young people don’t even need lipstick. They just look fantastic in an old sack. But if you’re the older you get, the more help you need. It’s one of the reasons I’m always banging on about good glasses and good necklaces. Because they’re in your eyeline. It’s what makes people see you.’
