House of Flora (founded 1996) is an established British fashion label and design house founded by designer Flora McLean. House of Flora designs have been exhibited in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London as part of the 2009 Anthology of Hats exhibition curated by milliner Stephen Jones. History McLean is the daughter of performance artist and photographer Bruce McLean. Some of her first self-made designs were the hats and turbans made for her father's 1996 film, Urban Turban. 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 avant-garde design aesthetic is informed by her stated influences of surrealism, constructivism and the Bauhaus movement. Collections Hats 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, 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. House of Flora has created Millinery Couture for Matthew Williamson, Blumarine, Bruce Oldfield and for Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy Haute Couture. Clothing The design house also provides bespoke clothing designs, such as the pink fibreglass corset and black trench coat outfits designed and fabricated for Victoria's Secret in 2006 and 2008. McLean debuted her first dress design created under the House of Flora name - entitled Dress No.1 - at the SHOWstudio's 'Future Tense' project in 2008 (a military style cotton printed shirt dress). Dress No.2 (a wool, blue gabardine coat dress) and Dress No.3 (a red printed mackintosh mac dress) followed. It is McLean's stated intention to produce a single House of Flora dress design per season. Collaborations Neil Moodie McLean and House of Flora's design project collaborations include those with hairstylist Neil Moodie, and with whom McLean has created 'Iconic Heads' - hats inspired by hairstyles and created from in felt and other fabrics, one hat in the form of Elvis's quiff. 'Iconic Heads' has toured to Colette in Paris, Bumble and bumble in New York, and Liberty in London. Danny Flynn House of Flora worked with award-winning printer Danny