LONDON — Designer Alice Temperley is stepping away from the business she founded in 2000, which is now majority owned by the Dubai-based Times Square Group LLC.
Her company, Temperley London, said the designer is leaving “with the backing of the team and house she has helped build.” It added that further details on the appointment of the new leadership team, and a new design director, will be shared in due course.
Temperley said she is “enormously proud of everything I have built at Temperley London. It has been the creative home of my life for over two decades. The time is right for me to pursue a new direction, one that allows me to follow long-held passions, with the people I love, on things that feel completely true to who I am as a designer.”
Going forward, the designer said she will focus on “a new creative practice, an independent venture” that involves her creative network, her family and 22 “muses,” who have shaped her vision over the years.
Temperley sold a majority stake in her brand to Times Square in 2023, and has been presenting her colorful bohemian-flecked seasonal collections during London Fashion Week. As recently as last February, Temperley said she was on the hunt for a new managing director for the brand.
