Alice Temperley was busier than usual this season, adding a few more sequins here, extra bugle beads there, and geometric, Art Deco-style embroidery to a lineup of linen dresses. It was unabashedly maximalist, and all about art and craft.
The designer loves embellishment, and this season she took that passion up a notch with a collection called Art for Art’s Sake. It drew on Victorian England‘s obsession with ferns in glass-walled greenhouses and 1930s Hollywood’s obsession with palm trees.
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Temperley left no surface, or hemline, untouched.
Fluid gowns came with silk flower appliqués, while long fringe dangled from the edges of a white, sleeveless, flapper-style dress. The designer worked with luscious, weighty linen fabric, embroidering ferns, flowers, heart shapes and starbursts onto long, button-front dresses and shorter, strappy ones, too.
She added geometric prints — in cooling shades of mint, peach and dandelion — to silky tops, caftans and dresses, and rows of gold bugle beads to a short, swingy burgundy dress. For evening, there were sequins galore, gold and lavender ones for a gown with sheer, fluttery sleeves; and silvery sparkles for a demure periwinkle dress fit for a night under the starry sky.
Launch Gallery: Temperley London Spring 2026 Ready-To-Wear Collection
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