Alice Temperley

I get up between 6:30 and 7 A.M., and my morning routine is always the same: ...
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I don't try to be in fashion, I don't try to follow trends. You just end ...
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I don't think many people would think I'm a designer. I behave in a different way ...
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A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

It should be natural, and that's how I like women to look. I like them to ...
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A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

Fashion moves so quickly that, unless you have a strong point of view, you can lose integrity.

I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into trouble for cutting up my mother's lampshades to make a dress. I was three.

I buy vintage - mainly Alaia and some Westwood - but 90 per cent of the time, I wear my own designs.

I can live in a bubble, I like not to know anything about financials.

I don't try to be in fashion, I don't try to follow trends. You just end up out of fashion that way.

I get up between 6:30 and 7 A.M., and my morning routine is always the same: hot water and lemon, eggs on toast and rose oil on the face.

I don't think many people would think I'm a designer. I behave in a different way. I'd get knocked down and cut to pieces if I went home and flounced about, this industry is known for the flounciness, but I've got my feet on the ground.

I keep only a small edit in my wardrobe because I think it is important to keep things moving through, and I like to find out which pieces from my collections work and which could be reworked and improved.

I like the things around me to be beautiful and slightly dreamy, with a feeling of worldliness.

I love long power walks in the countryside.

I like to be real. I don't like things to be staged or fussy.

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.

I think that a woman that is elegant herself is somebody who can dress herself easily and effortlessly.

I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.

I try to take care of myself, and I lead a healthy lifestyle.

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

I was always in trouble at school for what I was wearing, I was never made a prefect because of the way I used to dress - I ripped my tights, my skirts were too short, all sorts of things.

It should be natural, and that's how I like women to look. I like them to feel comfortable and look organic.

I'm really excited about the future.

My mother has always encouraged my creative side. She is a very eclectic, creative woman and looks incredibly glamorous, even when trudging about in wellies. Our family home is full of items from her travels and her amazing etchings and drawings.

My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.

Lingerie is my next love after clothing, I think it is what is worn underneath that really inspires a woman to feel beautiful in her clothes - that inner, secret glamour.

You have to stay true to your heritage, that's what your brand is about.

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.

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.