Monique is a MA London College of Fashion womenswear graduate, her approach to hat design is adventurous, experimental in materials, construction, and colours. Since starting Monique Lee Millinery in 2013, her designs have been featured in over 200 covers and editorials: VOGUE, Vanity Fair (Emma Watson, shot by Tim Walker, March 2017, and Kate McKinnon, shot by Annie Leibovitz, Nov 2017), Grazia, Harpers Bazaar, L’Officiel, Schön!, Tatler, Hello!, Brides, AnOther, Hunger, House of Coco, Design Scene, The Protagonist, Superior, The Guardian, The Independent, Evening Standard, Sunday Times, Royal Ascot Official, Channel 4 Racing and many more.

She has collaborated with many prestigious partners such as Shangri-La Hotel, at The Shard, Dorchester Collection Coworth Park Hotel and Spa, Birmingham City Council for the Chelsea Flower Show, and Le BHV MARIS. Her hats were also showcased at London Fashion Week, Copenhagen Fashion Week, Shanghai Fashion Week, Sotheby’s London, the Louvre, and EXPO Milano. She has met and worked with many incredible talents throughout her journey with Monique Lee Millinery. In 2014, she founded X Terrace fashion platform to help EU fashion talents involved in paid fashion projects with overseas clients. She is the curator of the London Hat Week exhibitions since 2015. She has also recently become one of the 8 official milliners among the amazing Philip Treacy OBE and Stephen Jones OBE for Royal Ascot Millinery Collective 2018. This year, she was also commissioned by 20th Century Fox to create 20 hats to represent the unique characters in the celebrated film The Greatest Showman. 

Monique is the founder of XTerrace.com, she launched TheHatCircle.com in 2020 and TheAccessoryCircle.com in 2021 for fashion lovers worldwide to discover rare and vintage fashion and home accessories.

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