Alice Temperley’s been all over the place.

This time last year she had a bash of a runway show in the big tent; last season, a more intimate show in London and today a presentation and the above video present her Fall 09 collection.

Temperley according to Alice:

The mood — “Everything needed to be special. It’s really about key things with multiple uses, pieces that function, easier silhouettes. But I wanted to get tough, too. “

The inspiration — “We called the collection ‘Empress of the Orient.” It’s really inspired by Beardsley and Poiret. I want it to be a celebration of the clothes.”

The presentation — “I’m so relieved to not cast, not deal with the models or the politics of seating and all that. It’s just not the most creative way to show your collection. Everyone’s traveling, and so busy, you have the press, the buyers, the customers and now everyone can see it all at once. And see the clothes move and all know what’s happening at the same time in this really creative way.”

If you missed last night’s YSL cocktail party at Housing Works, there’s still hope.

We’ve unearthed a haven of designer paper dolls onAmazon.com. So if you’re on a mission to avoid depressing in store atmospheres, check out the YSL package at left that includes a Mondrian dress, Le Smoking and an original trapeze dress. What could be more perfect than a gift that lets you pretend to be Rachel Zoe while simultaneously indulging in nostalgia?

Prefer Chanel? They have that, too.

Our favorites, aside from the Schiarparelli, are Great Designs of the 90s and Best Actresses of the 1990s.

Because we’ll never tire of seeing Gwyneth in that Ralph Lauren dress.

- ALEXANDRA BEN-GURION

The Costume Institute at the Met is finally getting its own audio guide.

We never understood why one of the most popular, (at least in recent years), galleries lacked an informational tour to go with it. The clothes are fun to see, but left without any context other than the obligatory opening paragraph, one’s forced to imagine the stories behind them and the historical context in which they fit.

So, thanks to Harold Koda, the curator responsible for most of the institute’s recent success, visitors will get ten times more out of their Costume Institute experience.

And of course, when we’re talking about clothes that range from pre-Poiret to Paquin to Prada one can’t have just any narrator. Sarah Jessica Parker’s already recorded Costume: The Art of Dress which will cover most of the museum’s clothing and other pertinent works of art.

It’ll be fun to hear Carrie’s voice, we just hope an historian wrote the script.