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, 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 was chosen as finalist by VOGUE Italia Senior Editor/ Talent Editor Sara Maino in MUUSE x VOGUE Talents Young Vision Accessories Award. She has won the People's Choice Award in VOGUE VTalents competition in 2014. 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 Chelsea Flower Show, 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 made commissioned hats for vocalist Eleanor Rose of Electric Swing Circus to perform at Glastonbury Festival. Later was invited to create masks for The Animal Ball organised by charity organisation Elephant Family. The masks were exhibited along with masks created by Cartier, Christian Louboutin, DVF – Diane von Furstenberg and Stephen Jones at Selfridges and Sotheby's London for VIP guests including Their Royal Highnesses, The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, celebrities such as Cara Delevingne to view and choose to wear to the ball. Throughout her journey with Monique Lee Millinery, she has met and worked with many incredible talents. In 2014, she founded X Terrace fashion platform to help EU fashion talents to involve in paid fashion projects with overseas clients. She is the curator for the London Hat Week exhibitions since 2015. And 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, TheAccessoryCircle.com and London Accessory Week in 2021 for fashion lovers from around the world to discover rare and vintage fashion and home accessories.

For collaboration or commissioned work, please contact: info@moniquelee.uk or @mlmhats on Instagram or Twitter.