Alexa Chung (May 2006 - June 2009)

[DiamondSea]

I think Chanel might be giving her free bags now! It seemed to be a big deal for her when she bought a 2.55 a while ago, and now she's been photographed with two new ones in the last couple of weeks.

Some pictures from the set of It's On with Alexa Chung.


thebradleythomasflickr, mtv.com


usatoday, twitter

USA Today were at the rehersals and said of Alexa:
"Even though It's On is taped in the same studio as TRL and features a studio audience, it doesn't have quite the same vibe -- 25-year-old Alexa is a smart, cute Brit with an offbeat sense of style. She's happy, but her show won't elicit ear-piercing tween screams. She's funny, a little unpolished and not the typical MTV-approved lady."
The first guests are Jack Black and Michael Cera. The full article is here. There's also a Wall Street Journal article here.

From the Women of Fashion 2009 event:





men.style.com

[imiuyou]

can someone please tell me who this dress is by? or where i can get it? thanks

[STYLEOClDE]

even though you can't really see her face in the middle picture...
i think it's so stunning.

[natalea52]

thank you diamond sea! finally some pics! hmm the chanel, hmm the lace dress-all gorg

[alicia753]

Love the pics

[LuLover]

Thanks Diamond Sea....
I love an Alexa/Tenesse combo

[LegsXI]

regarding the chanel bags I do remember somebody saying here that chanel have given her an allowance. I don't like the big bag either! thanks for the pics, looks like the dress is different to the one I thought it was

[mahdama]

Originally Posted by Virginielle

Anybody know what brand that trench is? I'm into it.

I'm quite certain it's Burberry.

[saturdaysgirl]

The dress in the pic in post #8975 is by Arrogant Cat. It's fairly ancient (in fashion terms, but not old enough to be called vintage).
I love the new pics.
Thanx Diamond Sea (still can't give you karma....must spread the love )

[ladyflash]

"I apparently feel very comfortable around people in fake glasses and plaid shirts."

Lol. Love her. Wonder if they're gonna show this on MTV UK.

[indian_rose]

The lace dress is gorgeous

[disfordangerous]

I love her hair now that it's grown a little bit.
All the pictures on the last page are lovley, I want that Burberry coat, haha. ;(

[gossiping]

the trench is ok but i prefer the dip dye one :P

[mcgregl]

Diamond Sea - you are my god

[DiamondSea]

I don't think it's Alexa, her nose is much broader . Where's the article it came from?

There's an article in the New York Times today. It's mainly about the show, so I just pasted the Alexa bits. The full article is here.

Alexa Chung, the host of “It’s On With Alexa Chung,” in her apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The live daytime show begins Monday on MTV.

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As for the person who will present this new venture, Ms. Chung, a 25-year-old model and television personality in Britain, sounded so relaxed in a recent telephone interview that serious questioning seemed almost rude. Speaking in the equivalent of a Facebook status update, she said she was “eating some pasta, feeling pretty content,” clearly straining her voice after a night of karaoke that ended, according to her tweets, at 7 a.m.

Her karaoke standbys, by the way — which should be familiar to any of the more than 17,000 people following her tweets — include Nickelback’s “This Is How You Remind Me,” Kylie Minogue’s “Better the Devil You Know” and lately, Kings of Leon’s “Sex on Fire.”

“It’s a lovely one to do,” she said.

Ms. Chung has spent the past three years hosting programs for Channel 4 in Britain about music and popular culture, and she is a regular presence in the European celebrity press, most recently appearing on the cover of the May issue of Harper’s Bazaar in Britain alongside the headline, “This Year’s Girl.”

She auditioned for the MTV talk show about a year ago, and her hip attitude and sometimes wacky lines of questioning appealed to the MTV producers.

“She’s able to infuse everything with her own take,” said Corin Nelson, the executive producer.

While Ms. Chung (whose father is Chinese and mother, British) had expressed a yearning to live in New York, “cracking the U.S., as it were, wasn’t on my agenda,” she said, adding that “people in London are obsessed with Brits breaking America.”

“People in America keep asking me — and I think it’s quite an American mindset — what my long-term game plan is,” she continued. “That’s not the way I think.”
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The audience for “TRL” had been declining for years, and that it lasted 12 years speaks to the difficulty in replacing it. Ms. Chung, untouched by much nostalgia for what was once an MTV mainstay, remarked that YouTube has “rendered those shows kind of archaic.” She also mentioned that MTV executives “get a bit sensitive” when “TRL” comes up. (According to the network the only thing the two shows have in common is the studio location.)

And how do you fill an hour of live teenage TV without music videos? With “inane banter,” Ms. Chung joked. “Mindless chitchat. Hilarious interviews.” The format will typically include a pop culture and news update, a comedy segment, celebrity interviews and what Ms. Nelson called an “Internet discovery.” Theoretically some of those discoveries — viral videos, Web stars, and LOL-worthy photos — will come from viewers, who will be able to submit them online.
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As for Ms. Chung’s online persona, her short communiqués on Twitter seem written solely for the three-dozen people she follows through the site. In essence she uses the forum not to broadcast self-promotional patter but to talk to her friends the way her fans do. But she said she prefers Facebook. “It’s just quite self-centered, isn’t it?” she said of Twitter. “You have to be quite confident that you’re very interesting in order for it to work.”

Yet there she was last Sunday upon arrival in New York, posting onto Twitter via her BlackBerry about her lost luggage and a three-hour flight delay and her unfortunate decision to watch the film “He’s Just Not That Into You” on the plane.

“I will always regret that decision,” she wrote in her tweet.
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