Alexa Chung

[annainalbion]

she just got out of a four year relationship and is photographed constantly when she may well feel like absolute crap... chill guys

 

[LuellaLuella]

Are madewell.com still not shipping to the uk yet? I'd like to buy a couple of pieces from alexa's next collection but really do not want to have to search ebay and pay 3 times the price.
Luella did you say you were going to buy some? Do you live in the uk?

Naw, I forgot about them not shipping to the UK :-( booo

 

[Not Plain Jane]

I thought the writer was being sarcastic, lol.

Sometimes, interviews are coloured by the attitude of the writer towards his or her subject - either positively or negatively - so that is always something to keep in mind.

 

[lelaid]

what surprises me is her reaction to getting her picture taken in the interview with the sydney morning hearld. especially considering she is wearing chanel and balenciaga...

 

[annainalbion]

can anyone id the skirt in #673 from the apc event where she wore red lipstick?

 

[sundaymorning]

My favorite shot is the one of her in the record shop; not sure I love the way they've styled her hair, but I love everything else: clothes, settings, make up.

I agree! Gorgeous photograph

 

[laisla]

Alexa Chung: "It’s the groupie vibe I’m attracted to"

Alexa Chung on her love affair with Sixties fashion and the down side of being a style icon.

If any girl today is synonymous with the effortless gamine, look which came to define the Sixties, it's Alexa Chung.

The model turned TV presenter and fashion designer has all the attributes required to pull off the look with aplomb: Bambi-esque limbs, doe eyes and ability to make girls swoon with envy at her wardrobe without looking like she's made any effort at all.

For the October issue of Harper's Bazaar, Alexa has gone back in time, modelling a range of new season designs in the Sixties style in and around David Hockney's Notting Hill flat, and talking about how her love affair with the decade began.

"My ex-boyfriend [photographer David Titlow] showed me Antonioni's 1966 film Blow-Up in my late teens. I remember seeing Jane Birkin. And I couldn't believe it. She even made just wearing a pair of tights look sexy. . . I think the Sixties vibe suits my body type, which is skinny legs and a boyish frame."

Chung, who recently split with Arctic Monkey's front man Alex Turner also revealed how she's seduced by the iconic romances the 'It' boys of the day had with the world's most beautiful, and stylish, women:

"It's the groupie vibe that I'm attracted to. They had these amazing love affairs, and both the men and the women were made amazing by them. The girls in the Sixties were never overshadowed by the men they dated. You can talk about Jane Shrimpton without having to mention Bailey or Terence Stamp first."

But Chung, who has two new fashion television shows in the pipeline and a new collection for US label Madewell in store now, confessed there is a downside to being a style icon:

"I fell out of love with the Sixties for a while. I think because I was so identified with it. It's like Sienna Miller when she did boho, then suddenly stopped because she was like, 'F**k. What else can I do, because I've done it?' Everyone copied my sodding coat for a while too. It was my Harrods kid's vintage one. Every girl suddenly had one and I was like, 'Arrgh!' I got really bored of smock dresses and loafers for a while. But I feel like I'm ready to fall in love all over again."

Full interview appears in the October issue of Harper's Bazaar UK, on sale Monday 5th September

telegraph.co.uk

 

[eli marie]

^ hmm, I love that 60s look on her. and it fits her so well. glad to hear it's appealing to her again.

 

[Not Plain Jane]

what surprises me is her reaction to getting her picture taken in the interview with the sydney morning hearld.especially considering she is wearing chanel and balenciaga...

Which is exactly why I assumed it was sarcasm.

 

[niki03]

She is so smug in interviews

 

[cloudyshambles]

Which is exactly why I assumed it was sarcasm.

I'm not sure... If it really had been sarcasm, her publicist wouldn't have asked the photographer to leave the room and wouldn't have demanded to delete the pics he'd already taken, right?

 

[gossiping]

i think that's funny about the coat thing it is true. but she copied it herself from her "60s icons" !

 

[silentblue]

alexaswardrobe.tumblr.com

 

[SabrinaNicole]

She is so smug in interviews

In some recent interview she said something about how she got so bored talking to someone a contact lens fell out. Really she's the new Gwyneth:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinio...-so-happy-to-have-cheated-winter-1217969.html

 

[eli marie]

^ that interview is three years old and her contact fell out after crying...

 

[Buttercup]

She is so smug in interviews

I agree. Wow.

 

[ShiveredRainbows]

^ She looks awfully bored in that ed. What a way to ruin beautiful clothing!

 

[Not Plain Jane]

In #727 she is wearing the same resort Chanel dress that Kate Bosworth just wore to an event in France (I think it was France). She looks gorgeous in that navy and red dress. Love seeing her in editorials!

I don't believe everything I read in interviews; if I see it straight from the person's mouth that is different. But so often things are misquoted, taken out of context, slanted by the prose around it. Journalists are *not* neutral.

 

[laisla]

alexaswardrobe.tumblr.com

love those

 

[OhSoTychonic]

For those who want to read, the 'contact lens' interview is here:
http://forums.thefashionspot.com/showpost.php?p=9077839&postcount=98

IMO, she seems nice and after all, we're here for her style