Temperley London — Beatrice 2012 Collection

Tem­per­ley Lon­don: the Beat­rice 2012 bridal collection

I adore the ele­gance of these dresses, the way they flow and the way they’ll move. The exquis­ite lace pat­terned back of the Estella dress stops me in my tracks (imag­ine the oohs and aahs as you walk down the aisle!) while the sim­plic­ity and grace of Chloe with the del­i­cate flower embell­ish­ment is just divine.

Beat­rice 2012 is an expanded, beau­ti­ful and var­ied col­lec­tion with styles to suit every Tem­per­ley bride. The col­lec­tion fea­tures new designs in a vari­ety of shapes, from del­i­cately embell­ished ethe­real gowns to struc­tured full skirt and lace styles.

The ver­sa­tile Avalia dress, inspired by 50’s cou­ture, is a shorter style in sump­tu­ous silk with an empha­sized waist and a detach­able long skirt, while the Gre­cian inspired draped Laelia Dress has del­i­cate three-dimensional flower appliqués on the bodice for an exquis­ite touch.

Embell­ish­ments through­out are intri­cate with hand-applied crys­tals, stitched embroi­dery and hand folded flower and rib­bon detail­ing. The col­lec­tion also fea­tures volu­mi­nous tulle appliqué skirts, mod­ern struc­tured strap­less options, and elon­gated body skim­ming sil­hou­ettes in lux­u­ri­ous silks and fine French laces, all with the same time­less, fem­i­nine and ethe­real nature that is the Tem­per­ley handwriting.

Wed­ding acces­sories from Tem­per­ley Bridal

Tem­per­ley Bridal also offers acces­sories includ­ing deca­dent head pieces and brooches, embell­ished sashes for the waist and wrists and an expan­sion of shrug and veil cat­e­gories in beau­ti­ful mate­ri­als such as rab­bit fur [which this par­tic­u­lar wed­ding blog­ger doesn’t endorse! — please scroll to the end of the blog post] and embell­ished French laces.

In addi­tion, each dress in the Beat­rice 2012 col­lec­tion has a del­i­cate blue ‘forget-me-not’ flower embroi­dery on the inside for the bride’s ‘Some­thing Blue’.

‘It is an hon­our when any woman chooses to wear your clothes, but when you are selected to cre­ate their wed­ding dress, there is no higher priv­i­lege. Beat­rice 2012 has options for every Tem­per­ley Bride — for the deca­dent church wed­dings, the bare­foot beach bride, to the mod­ern city hall affair. Each dress has to be the per­fect blend of func­tion­al­ity and fan­tasy; a bride must never feel over­whelmed by her dress but allow them to be the ulti­mate ver­sion of them­selves.’ Alice Tem­per­ley, MBE

Bridal is the fastest grow­ing area of Tem­per­ley Lon­don, now pro­duc­ing two full col­lec­tions a year includ­ing retail and whole­sale collections.

The Tem­per­ley Bridal line evolved after Alice’s own wed­ding in 2002 to Lars von Ben­nigsen when she received many requests from friends to also cre­ate
their wed­ding gowns. Celebrity clients include Milla Jovovich, Lib­erty Ross, Jacquetta Wheeler and Sophie Dahl.

Sorry… but my con­science would like to chip in. 

 I have a ques­tion for you. As I scrolled through the press release I did a dou­ble take at the words “rab­bit fur”. When­ever I see fur acces­sories, those gor­geous white shrugs for exam­ple, I assume they’re fake. So I write this blog post with my own reservations.

Tem­per­ley fur acces­sories… just how big were those bunnies?

The dresses are beau­ti­ful — but if Tem­per­ley didn’t use real rab­bit fur in their acces­sories I’d feel more com­fort­able and enthu­si­as­tic about rec­om­mend­ing the brand. Is fur widely used in the wed­ding indus­try? I don’t know, but I’d like to find out.

More blog­ger reviews of the Tem­per­ley Bridal 2012 col­lec­tion (some men­tion­ing but not com­ment­ing on the rab­bit fur… is it just me?)

• http://www.belleamour.co.uk/2012/07/bridal-style-temperley/
• http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/blog/25949/temperley-london-new-bridal-collection/
• http://fashionbride.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/temperley-2012-bridal-summer-collection/
• http://www.lovemydress.net/blog/2012/07/alice-temperley-beatrice-2012-collection.html