Alice Temperley Alice Temperley Alice Temperley MBE (born 22 July 1975) is an English fashion designer based in London. Her fashion label, Temperley London was launched in 2000. In 2006, "The Guardian" noted that she had been described by "American Vogue" as the designer making the biggest waves in British fashion. More recently, she has been described as the "English Ralph Lauren". Alice Temperley grew up in Somerset, on her parents' cider farm and graduated from the Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins. She established Temperley London, together with her then boyfriend Lars von Bennigsen in 2000. The brand has
Valentina (fashion designer) Valentina (fashion designer) Valentina Nicholaevna Sanina Schlee (1 May 1899 – 14 September 1989), simply known as Valentina, was a Russian émigrée fashion designer and theatrical costume designer active from 1928 to the late 1950s. Schlee was born and raised in Kiev, Russian Empire (modern-day Ukraine). She was studying drama in Kharkov at the outbreak of the October Revolution in 1917. She met her Russian financier husband, George Schlee (died 1974), at the Sevastopol railway station as she was fleeing the country with her family jewels; there is some question as to whether they were legally wed. George Schlee is