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Do you love Annie like I love Annie? Do you love Alice like I love Alice?

Well, I love them is all. Both of  'em. Annie and Alice. Alice and Annie. (I think I'm on to something here...)

Anywho, the Annie I refer to is the incomparable songbird Annie Lennox, and Alice is none other than the exquisitely talented fashionista Alice Temperley. Designer Alice Temperley took a new direction with her Temperley London seasonal installation in New York February 2010, reinterpreting some of the late Norman Parkinson’s photographs with the help of photographer Adam Whitehead. The images feature 16 modern British icons who define True British style and glamour – including Annie Lennox, Liberty Ross, Rosamund Pike, Sophie Dahl, Yasmin Le Bon, Laura Bailey and Jacquetta Wheeler.

The resulting images have been printed life size on canvas and then hand-embroidered and embellished with the same techniques used in the collection pieces. The canvases will be auctioned off in London on 18th May 2010 with all proceeds going to ‘The Circle’ who will distribute to an Oxfam project, chosen by Alice in order to support women in West Africa.

Alice was inspired to help fund an Oxfam project after she was invited by Annie Lennox to attend a ‘Circle’ dinner. The Circle is a group of high-profile women who have come together to use their valuable ideas, experience and contacts to give partnership and support to the world’s poorest women. Circle friends include Annie Lennox, Jane Shepherdson, Vanessa Emilien, Vanessa Branson, Livia Firth, Sojin Lee, Beverley Knight, Zoe Ball, Melanie Hall, Maryam D’Abo, Karen Benhamou Ruimy, Alice Temperley and Kim Chappell.

Click here to read the ‘True British’ auction catalogue which includes images of the canvases, statements from both Alice and Annie about the project and an absentee bidding form for the auction.

source: Ultimate Eurythmics; images: Temerpley London

Fashion Designer Alice Temperley is one of my absolute favorite designers. Her taste is just completely impeccable. To my delight, Elle has shared a bit of their conversation with Alice recently. The topic? Shiny, bodacious jewelry. Here's what she had to say:

"It’s a magpie nest,” says designer Alice Temperley of her loft, the top half of a converted nineteenth-century barn, which sits above her shop in London’s Notting Hill. At the moment it’s partially roofless—she’s expanding her territory to the flat next door. “It’s pissing rain at the moment,” says a lithe, rosy-cheeked Temperley as she measures a giant old-fashioned-looking gold and black onyx cocktail ring—the first piece in the Temperley jewelry line, which her sister, Mary, designed for fall. “Five centimeters long!” she says triumphantly. “Every model we sent down the runway had one of these on.”

The designer has long cultivated a love of huge, eye-catching accessories. “I like jewelry to be bold. I don’t like anything little or fiddly,” she says. In addition to her stock of flamboyant mirrored headdresses (which make for popular party hats at her late-night dinners), found everywhere from flea market tables at the UK’s Glastonbury Festival to the farthest reaches of Bali, Temperley has an extensive trove of Victorian baubles, bracelets, and necklaces— some of which inspired pieces in her fall collection. “I found this 1920s beetle-wing necklace at a vintage fair in London; it reminded me of earrings I had as a child,” says Temperley, who translated the piece’s iridescence into a gold-foil jersey fabric—custom-made at a mill in Como, Italy— which became a slinky, mermaid- shape evening gown.



photos: elle.com - (L-R, T-B) Temperley in her loft, Temperley's ring collection, her Notting Hill loft, the designer in a skirt and top of her own design, an antique headdress, Temperley with Rachel Zoe, a Moet tote designed by Temperley, the designer in one of her designs from an '07 collection, a Temperley '06 creation.

source: elle.com