Alexa Chung

[MulletProof]

^ I listened to it this week.. I've always found Bella Freud a bit annoying but the format of the show and the time they get to provide thoughtful answers is great. I like Alexa.. she's the kind of celebrity that I've found likable and relatable not when she's being professional and trying to be likable and relatable but in her constant struggle to regulate insolence and even smugness, which happened in her 20s/30s and now it seems to have been replaced by self-consciousness on aging, you can tell she's partly relaxed and curious, and partly horrified by it and not in a humorous way .. which is far more refreshing to see than someone giving a rehearsed answer. Like the part where she mentions looking at her catwalk pictures after the Miu Miu show, I'm not sure it's a good idea to point out things that maybe people haven't even noticed and will not be able to unsee later but.. hilarious that she does and is openly vain but still has a good sense of humor about herself.

 

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Madewell and Alexa Chung Celebration Launch Event with Vogue, Lucien, NYC, New York, United States - 06 Nov 2025​

BFA.com

 

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Alexa Chung’s Holiday Collection for Madewell Is a Love Letter to New York​

Vogue.com

 

[Not Plain Jane]

^ I listened to it this week.. I've always found Bella Freud a bit annoying but the format of the show and the time they get to provide thoughtful answers is great. I like Alexa.. she's the kind of celebrity that I've found likable and relatable not when she's being professional and trying to be likable and relatable but in her constant struggle to regulate insolence and even smugness, which happened in her 20s/30s and now it seems to have been replaced by self-consciousness on aging, you can tell she's partly relaxed and curious, and partly horrified by it and not in a humorous way .. which is far more refreshing to see than someone giving a rehearsed answer. Like the part where she mentions looking at her catwalk pictures after the Miu Miu show, I'm not sure it's a good idea to point out things that maybe people haven't even noticed and will not be able to unsee later but.. hilarious that she does and is openly vain but still has a good sense of humor about herself.

precisely: i like all the contradictions, the candid disclosures, the seams showing etc... The format of the podcast is definitely what works here, not necessarily the host: people laying back, looking up, and just speaking their minds, not looking at someone. i think it's more likely to generate honesty than looking someone in the face. alexa showed her intelligence, humour, vanity, insecurity, etc., all the multi-faceted aspects of being human, though obviously in this case a rather privileged one.