Sheffield designer Elizabeth Edwards will be launching her eco-couture clothes range, Hope&Glory, tonight at The Walnut Club Champagne Bar on Ecclesall Road.

The glitzy charity event – named Floral ImPACT – is in aid of the Parents' Association of Children with Cancer and Tumours.

Elizabeth's clothes on show alongside work by floral artist Wendy Carlton and florist Sarah Turpin of flowersforlaura.com, whose daughter Laura died of leukaemia at 19 weeks.

Elizabeth hunts out a massive range of materials from the exchange website Sheffield Freecycle, city charity shops and recycling firm Reclaim to recycle into new clothes.

She said: "I am literally there covered in muck searching through all the things that people have thrown out. One of the skirts I have made was an old curtain that had been given to one of the Reclaim banks after being used as a paint sheet.

"Every garment has a history and people will know exactly where things have come from."

It is all very hands-on for the 44-year-old who has a degree in fashion design and has worked with top names in the industry including Jean Muir, Betty Jackson and Mulberry.

She has dressed Joanna Lumley, Alison Moyet and Victoria Wood and travelled the world sourcing goods and designing outfits.

The mum-of-three moved to Sheffield a few years ago and originally created recycled cardigans but has now extended into a full range of eye-catching outfits.

Everything about them is designed to be friendly to the environment, as well as the eye, and each one is unique.

Many of the clothes can be easily adjusted to fit whatever size the wearer needs but no two can be the same.

Elizabeth said: "What I'm hoping people will say is 'I love that design, can you make it for me?' One of the ideas I have is that I can show off all the designs and materials on the website, then people can choose their fabric and their design so it can be worked to their taste."

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