True Temperley
Alice Temperley made her debut at London fashion week in September 2000 and climbed the ranks as a designer, making her mark with flirty sundresses. This September, the Brit designer’s collection showed that the Temperley London woman has certainly gotten more dressed-up over the years. Maybe that can be attributed to two of her most [...]
Goodbye To All That: Alice Temperley On Her Memories of Central Saint Martins
This month, London’s Central Saint Martins school—one of the globe’s best fashion training grounds—leaves its long-held Charing Cross Road building and moves to a new complex on Kings Cross. Style.com reporter Katharine Zarrella spoke with some of the school’s most distinguished alumni about their memories of the Soho space, running throughout the week. Today, Alice [...]
Tom Ford: The Video, The Year In Gaga,
What To Say No More, And More…
It’s the most exciting viral video of the new year—and it doesn’t even include cats playing pianos or riding waterslides. It’s Tom Ford’s September women’s runway presentation in New York, with a soundtrack by Karen Elson, who also walked in the show. [Fashionista]Alice Temperley started 2011 with a bang: The designer received an MBE for [...]
The Must-Watch Show For Runway Fanatics Is…So You Think You Can Dance?!
It’s a week before Fox unveils the seventh season of So You Think You Can Dance, and the show’s hostess is on the phone with a confession. “The first dress I bought where I thought I had gone completely mad was an Alexander McQueen,” Cat Deeley tells Style.com. “It was the most beautiful dress I [...]
Hayek Premieres Premiere At A Premiere, M*A*S*H* Up, And More…
While our eyes were on the ethereal Cate Blanchett, we almost missed the equally lovely Salma Hayek as she hit the opening of Cannes yesterday. And as it turns out, she was wearing the first dress from Gucci’s new Premiere Collection—the label’s version of “couture.” (To get the real couture name, garments must—among other stipulations—be [...]
The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
Last night in London, there was no shortage of parties—from private dinners to Natalia Vodianova’s star-studded Love Ball—so count it as a testament to how beloved Alice Temperley is that her Alice in Wonderland-themed fête at Selfridges was still a mob scene, with friends and fans doing their best to get down the rabbit hole. [...]
Blasblog: The Alices Convene For A London Screening
We should have seen this one coming a mile away: Alice in Wonderland serving as the muse for Alice Temperley’s new lower-priced line, Alice. “Are you kidding? I have loved her my whole life, and not just because we have the same name,” Temperley sighed at the Soho Hotel in London, where she was hosting [...]
ALICE On The Way, Kawaii Couture, And More…
Vogue U.K. gets the first look at Alice Temperley’s new ALICE diffusion line, which hits stores this February. The low-down: more of the designer’s signature wild prints and girly silhouettes, less of your hard-earned cash to get ‘em. Here’s a second look from the upcoming collection, left. [Vogue U.K.]Blogger looks at couture, sees Pokemon. We [...]
Sophie Dahl: Happiness Is A Warm…Cup Of Tea
What makes Sophie Dahl happy? A quiet cup of tea. For Alice Temperley, it’s luxuriating in a warm bath. Christian Slater is partial to watching original Star Trek reruns while Vivienne Westwood loves a good laugh with her husband. And photographer Lorraine Goddard has photographed each of them doing just that, all in the name [...]
Blasblog From Glastonbury: Mud, Music, And (Yes) Sunshine
The moments leading to Glastonbury were hardly feel-good ones: There was the news, of course, about Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, and to make matters worse, the weather report was among the bleakest I’ve ever seen. According to the trusted meteorologists at Weather.com, the English countryside would be stormy and wet all weekend. Happily, they [...]






