A bubble tea brand hosting its own fashion runway show? Dot us in!
For one night only, on the 22nd February 2026, we hosted our FIRST London Fashion Week catwalk at the historic grounds of St John’s Church, Hyde Park, London! In a special collaboration with our friends at Fashion Clinic, we showcased a one-of-a-kind upcycle collection that explores a food-and-fashion luxury story, transforming upcycled garments with botanical printing (using Dot Dot’s ingredients) into experimental, zero-waste, luxury designs.
All the way from Hong Kong, fashion designer turned Green Artivist, Kay Wong, founder of Fashion Clinic, crafted 24 extraordinary designs using upcycled fabrics and pre-loved garments, with botanical prints inspired by Dot Dot Bubble Teas’ ingredients, such as rose petals, mango leaves, lemons, mint leaves, and lime. The collection reflects sustainability as modern luxury and fashion as an extension of what we eat, drink, and share to celebrate moments together. Our natural connection with Fashion Clinic reimagines waste and nature as luxury, with each piece detailing natural pigments, organic textures, and dyes.
What is Botanical or Eco printing?
Botanical, eco printing or botanical, eco dyeing are a few terms known for describing this increasingly popular and exciting method of transferring plants’ natural colours, details and patterns onto fabrics or paper. The range of approach uses leaves, flowers and other botanical elements or ingredient cuttings and shapes to extract colour and ‘ghost-like’ images of the foliage.
There is endless potential for botanical printing on fabrics or paper. Creating botanical prints is so satisfying as each experiment will give you a different result - no pattern is ever the same and that’s why we call it a ‘one-of-a-kind’ design. There’s infinite choices of floral types and ingredients that can print innumerable variations depending on the mordant and methods used to extract the colour.
Aluminium potassium sulphate (Alum) is often referred to as a mordant for botanical printing. It helps form chemical links between the fibre and the colourant to create light and wash colours. Alum is used as an assistant in altering the chemistry of cellulose to allow dye colours to bond to the fibre and the best materials to use for botanical eco printing are the ones with natural fibre content such as cotton, wool, and silk. Natural fibres absorb moisture far more efficiently which ensures that the mordant is effective in transferring the colour and details of the elements.
There is not just a one way approach for botanical printing as you can use a vast variety of foliage, botanical ingredients and fibre materials to create unique, beautiful designs. The final results are determined by which part of the plant is used (stem, leaves, or petals), by which mordant is used and on which substrate (cellulose and protein colours will appear differently) and final method of how the colour is extracted.
How do botanical printing and upcycling relate to Dot Dot?
Kay Wong explains that working with 100% natural materials like cotton, linen, silks, and wools is the best material for botanical printing, and with the ingredients that Dot Dot has, like mango, roses and lots of other botanicals, it just worked magic with the fabrics and became a natural connection between us. The collection translated botanical ingredients from Dot Dot into tactile textiles and garments, highlighting natural pigments, floral prints, and organic textures reimagined into new forms and silhouettes - a remarkable and memorable way to join the dots between food, fashion, and sustainable designs.
If we can do it, you can do it too!
The colour pink played a big part in the collection. The designs showcased Dot Dot ingredient botanical prints and natural dyes. Several designs were crafted from different fabrics, punched together using a needle-punching machine to create a silhouette couture! Nothing was wasted in the process, with even the leftover fabrics made into exclusive Dot Dot mini bottle bags for the models to strut down the runway (pretty cool, we know!) In one of the designs, the mango leaves were cut into polka dots for printing, and as they were cut into circles, the leftovers were used to print on the sleeves. Different leaves left different colour shades of imprints; some are greener, and some are browner, so no one pattern looks the same. It is an extraordinary way to celebrate togetherness and present upcycled designs as luxurious during the London Fashion Week.
What’s the story behind Fashion Clinic?
Fashion Clinic was founded in 2018. After 10 years of chasing trends and flogging collections in the international fashion scene, Fashion designer Kay Wong found herself with an empty heart, aware of how fast fashion operates in the wrong direction: mass-producing clothing and throwing it out very quickly. “I felt like there’s something I need to do as a designer to reverse this, so I’ve decided from that day that I will only work with leftover, surplus materials and pre-loved clothing.” (Kay Wong on her interview with Dot Dot founder Yandis Ying) Her mission to create zero-waste designs through handcrafted, artistic techniques such as botanical printing, traditional Japanese shibori, and natural dyes resonates with Dot Dot, as we both value crafting innovative and sustainable products with purpose for all to enjoy!
We connected the Dots between Food, Fashion, & Sustainability
We invited multiple friends in our industry, VIPs and a handful of Dotties (people from our community) to attend our exclusive fashion show and celebrate this special milestone with us! It was truly a memorable night, hosted by Fashion Synergy, which championed independent designers and small to medium enterprises. Lights, cameras, music, runway, Dot Dot! There was steaming, fittings, fabric scraps, and last-minute stitching, and Dot Dot bottles sitting quietly waiting backstage, on the seats, and at the entrance foyer, ready for the audience to quench their thirst on arrival! We even got our own Susie Bubble to model and walk down the catwalk for us! What began as ingredients in a bubble tea bottle became a masterpiece, a statement on the runway. We are so proud of our team, thankful to our community, and last but not least, the visionary Kay Wong, founder of Fashion Clinic, for bringing our vision to life!
