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
Sara Berman (fashion designer) Amiee Berman joined the company as a business partner and co-designer, having herself studied at Central Saint Martins. By 2002 Sara Berman had won the Marks and Spencer New Generation award three times, which was seen as an unusual achievement. In 2002, Berman featured – alongside Burberry, Paul Smith and Eley Kishimoto – in a feature about the direction of London designers. She was described as: "shaping up to be the thinking It girl's darling". In a profile that year, she described how she had turned down a fashion job offer in Italy after realising the salary was in lira