Garden designer Lucy Summers makes lingerie from fresh flowers for £675

May 12, 2015 by admin
Filed under Lingerie Events

Designer and award-winning gardener Lucy Summers created the range
Each set is hand-crafted for the individual and is the ‘ultimate floral gift’
‘Wealthy brokers’ are Summers’ top clients for the bespoke pieces

Maybelle Morgan For Mailonline

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09:50 EST, 11 May 2015

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10:56 EST, 11 May 2015

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Forget a bouquet of roses, men who want to show they care can now buy their loved one an underwear set made entirely of flowers.

Garden designer Lucy Summers has created a range of lingerie which feature fresh blooms that will wilt and die in just two days.

And the decorative undies, created specifically for each woman, are being snapped up by City high fliers who aren’t daunted by the £675 price tag.

Designer and award-winning gardener Lucy Summers decided to create the range of knickers and bras made from fresh blooms

The designer has admitted that ‘wealthy brokers’ are her top clients for the bespoke range

Lucy says decided to create knickers and bras made of real blooms to create the ‘mega expensive range’.

The designer – who is also a former Countdown letters girl, who took part in 56 shows before Carol Vorderman took over letters as well as numbers – said ‘wealthy brokers’ were her top clients for the bespoke range.

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The award-winning Chelsea Flower Show gardener, said the ‘fresh flower lingerie’ was a ‘ultimate luxury gift’ and that each set, which costs £675, is ‘hand-crafted to individual specifications’.

Among the flowers used are rose buds, orchids and waxflowers – which are stitched together with thread and twine to create ‘a unique, romantic and ultimate floral gift’.

Among the flowers used are rose buds, orchids and waxflowers, which are sewed together

The lingerie sets only last for 48 hours before wilting and dying, and so have to be delivered by courier

The real flower underwear sets will set people back £675 and are ‘hand-crafted to individual specifications’

According to her firm, Lucy Summers Living, the lingerie is delivered in ‘cool boxes’ by couriers because the blooms ‘only last 48 hours’ before wilting and dying.

She said: ‘Wealthy brokers were among the buyers who wanted to give their wives and girlfriends a one-off present.

‘The phrase “say it with flowers” is apt but giving the lingerie was much better than handing a bunch of roses.’

Lucy added: ‘The lingerie sets are created overnight [and are] highly priced because of the intricate work involved.

‘People told me it couldn’t be done but I wanted to prove them wrong.

‘Flowers are such fun and they spread happiness and it was a wonderfully creative project to work on.’

The sets are crafted overnight and are highly-priced because of the intricate work involved in creating each one

Lucy, an award-winning Chelsea Flower Show gardener, said the ‘fresh flower lingerie’ was a ‘ultimate luxury gift’

Her website states: ‘Owing to the creative process of our inspirational fresh flower lingerie, we work closely with you to ensure we create an truly individual set of opulent lingerie that is guaranteed to delight.’

But one sceptical office worker Steven Hunter, 32, of Greenwich, south London, said: ‘I wouldn’t mind coming home to find the wife lying on the bed in nothing but knickers made out of flowers, but it would set me back a week’s wages.

‘I think she’d probably be happier if I surprised her with a week’s holiday to Spain rather than a pair of knickers and a bra that will wilt and die in a couple of days.’