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McLean specialises in avant-garde headwear for haute couture designers, catwalks, fashion campaigns and personal collectors. The designs are made often from a variety of different materials not normally associated with millinery, such as PVC, Perspex, felt, leather, wood veneer, fibreglass and nylon,
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McLean is a winner of the Jerwood Contemporary Makers prize, an award initiative set up by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and the UK's only award for the applied arts. The chosen recipients share a prize fund of ÂŁ30,000 and an exhibition at the Jerwood Space gallery. The Flora McLean/House of
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and are influenced by strong geometry and historical figures as well as concepts in modern art. The geometric nature of the designs and the bespoke fabrication detail of the work often leads to it being described as part fashion/part art.
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House of Flora, McLean's own design house, was founded in 1996 when she started taking on private commissions and making millinery props for magazines, advertising and fashion shows. Her
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The design house also provides bespoke clothing designs, such as the pink fibreglass corset and black trench coat outfits designed and fabricated for
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An exhibition of the work of all the award winners opened 17-June - 25 July at the Jerwood Space, London, 2010.
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produced 'Fifty Hats That Changed The World', which featured the collaboration of McLean and hairstylist,
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UK (6 Nov), Vogue Russian, Vogue Deutsch, Vogue Beauty, Vogue Nippon (no.84), Vogue Casa (no.10),
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on a collection of accessories inspired by letterpress printing, and which debuted at the 2009
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website. An interview with Flynn for Print Week blog described the design collaboration.
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McLean and House of Flora's design project collaborations include those with hairstylist
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High-profile fashion ad campaigns and shows featuring House of Flora's designs include
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McLean debuted her first dress design created under the House of Flora name - entitled
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shocking pink corset showpiece 2006, Victoria’s Secret trench coat 2008 modelled by
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In 2010, Mclean was invited to create an installation of her designs for Kalbiri,
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The showcase fashion films for the new House of Flora dress collections
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campaign 1999, Luisa Beccaria, and the 'Millinery in Motion' show with
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In 2011, as part of their continuing 'Design' book series, The
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House of Flora designs have featured in magazines such as
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design aesthetic is informed by her stated influences of
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label and design house founded by designer Flora McLean.
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wool felt hat project with stylist Neil Moodie in 2009.
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The Kolberg Partnership, London (21 February 2009).
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