Bette Midler has found a new outlet for her lifelong love of gardening: a fashion collaboration with Flora Animalia, the Los Angeles-based sustainable clothing label founded by designer Rozae Nichols. The limited-edition line, called "The Divine Miss M & Flora Animalia," translates the pair's shared passion for growing things into a collection of aprons, a caftan, shirts, denim pieces and garden-ready home textiles, all produced in Flora Animalia's Los Angeles studio.
Nichols founded Flora Animalia in 2019 after stepping away from a four-decade fashion career, initially to run an edible-garden workshop space in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles. The label grew out of a small collection of functional aprons Nichols designed for her own gardening, eventually expanding into workwear-inspired shirts, dresses, pants and outerwear made largely from GOTS-certified organic cotton and Belgian linen. Everything is cut and sewn in-house by a small studio team.
Bette Midler works with LA-based brand Flora Animalia on a collection of gardening clothes, benefiting her non-profit New York Restoration Project. https://t.co/74EyhyV9NQ
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The Midler collaboration builds directly on that ethos. According to Flora Animalia, the collection was "inspired by and created in collaboration with" the singer and actress, and grew out of what the brand describes as the gardening roots the two women share, along with Midler's particular affinity for velvet, a fabric used throughout the line for its richness and texture. The centerpiece Divine Velvet Caftan is cut from fluid cupro viscose velvet and hand-painted with a botanical motif that Nichols developed from her own photograph of a flowering herb in her garden, then had translated into a stencil so local textile artisans could hand-paint each piece individually, giving every caftan subtle variation.
The apron offerings anchor the rest of the range, including the Divine Harvest Apron, made from durable cotton twill with velveteen straps and trim in three of Midler's reported favorite colors — emerald, amethyst and midnight — alongside a Divine Basket Apron, a Divine Deco Apron and a denim chore apron. Shirting styles include a Chore Shirt, a Gardener Shirt and an indigo worker's shirt, while a Divine Deco Dress and a pair of Divine Garden Pants round out the ready-to-wear pieces. The collaboration extends beyond clothing into the home, with a set of denim-inspired placemats, printed cotton napkins and a tea towel, plus a bandana, giving the line a domestic, gathering-table dimension that echoes Flora Animalia's usual mix of garden wear and soft homewares.
For Midler, the partnership is a natural extension of a decades-long relationship with gardening and green space. She has spoken publicly for years about the restorative pull of working outdoors, an interest that also underpins her nonprofit work in New York City. For Nichols, whose earlier labels drew a celebrity following that included Beyoncé and Michelle Obama, the collaboration reflects Flora Animalia's broader mission: functional clothing built for real garden work but polished enough to wear well beyond it, made in small, considered batches rather than mass production.
The pieces are sold directly through Flora Animalia's website and its Los Angeles retail store, priced from around $48 for the tea towel up to $445 for the Divine Deco Dress. As a limited-edition run rather than an ongoing line, the collaboration offers a specific, collectible snapshot of two very different careers — one in entertainment, one in fashion — meeting over a shared interest in the garden.
