When I was a child, I was always nicking my mum’s jewellery to wear, and I loved to drape a massive Chinese shawl around me from our fancy-dress box. I was obsessed with a feather and rabbit-fur collar from the age of three and attempted to make one with my friend, whose father was a gamekeeper. Alice Temperley Read Quote
I buy vintage – mainly Alaia and some Westwood – but 90 per cent of the time, I wear my own designs. Alice Temperley Read Quote
I loved being in London. Always walking everywhere, always out and about and always at markets, walking around Brick Lane and Covent Garden and Soho. Alice Temperley Read Quote
I like the things around me to be beautiful and slightly dreamy, with a feeling of worldliness. Alice Temperley Read Quote
If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing. Alice Temperley Read Quote
With celebrity being our new religion, it’s increasingly difficult to start up on your own. Talented young designers are more likely to either go and work for celebrity brands or huge fashion houses than ever before. Alice Temperley Read Quote
I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn’t date. Alice Temperley Read Quote
I think that a woman that is elegant herself is somebody who can dress herself easily and effortlessly. Alice Temperley Read Quote
I don’t try to be in fashion; I don’t try to follow trends. You just end up out of fashion that way. Alice Temperley Read Quote
