For the Temperley London Fall 2025 RTW collection, the designer was inspired by her son’s ancestor Levin August von Bennigsen, who fought Napoleon back in 1807.

The collection featured blinged-up and hand-painted medals adorned blazers, silk shirting, and the brand’s signature tattoo gowns. Then there were the jacquard knits in blue, red and purple, which had a Napleonic, almost regal air about them, while fringed filigree dresses offered a contemporary take on armor.

The family ties didn’t end with von Bennigsen: Temperley also designed her own toile de Jouy, featuring horses, llamas and donkeys from her farm, as well as the Somerset hill near where she grew up, and a tribute to her son, Fox. It’s these personal touches that make the brand uniquely British—even as it expands its customer base globally into the US and Middle East.