Fashion Statement: Alexa Chung's new best friends
As Britain's favourite fashionista makes the move to New York, she's on the hunt for a new partner in crime
Who will be Alexa Chung's best friend in New York?
She's departed our leafy shores, but will
Alexa Chung hang on to her Queen Bee of the Fashionable Youth title in her new home of New York? You bet she will. This isn't goodbye: it's HELLO! Hello, that is, to a set of fresh new bezzie mates. So who will they be? MTV's The Alexa Chung Show starts on 15 June and, as she confesses, "I've just moved here and I'm trying to meet people, so I'm inviting guests on the show."
We offer odds on who the one-time model of Fanta, Tampax, Vivienne Westwood and New Look will befriend in the Big Apple. Good luck, Lexie!
Agyness Deyn: Odds-on
No-brainer: already friends via their shared DNA of rock and fashion connections in London. But who will Henry Holland bunk down with when he's in town?
Chloe Sevigny: 66-1
Owner of Manhattan's It girl crown, whose style is not too dissimilar to Alexa's. Seems an unlikely friendship though - she's just that bit too cool and out of reach for our incoming Brit.
The Strokes: 200-1
Hmmmm. Williamsburg's best-known residents, and probably already mates through Alexa's Popworld back catalogue. But Albert Hammond Jr is Aggy's ex - will there be friendship politics?
Model and DJ Leigh Lezark: 100-1
Allegedly Matthew Williamson's new muse and the face of Hogan, this 24-year-old has lived in NYC since she was 17, so is likely to be icily cool. Lezark shares her downtown loft with her Brit actor boyfriend Max Minghella. Best friend? More likely arch nemesis.
Costello Tagliapietra: 20-1
Jeffrey Costello and Robert Tagliapietra are two cool Brooklyn guys who we'd be mates with. A couple, they dress women in beautiful casuals while themselves being purveyors of lumberjack shirted/bearded "bear chic". They'd be a riot, and would love our Alexa's kooky cool.
Jason Wu: 10-1
Another hot young twentysomething. Great chance to get Mobama, who wears a lot of his designs, into her extended network.
The Proenza Schouler boys, Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough: 10-1
We love their young, sporty clothes and are intrigued by them, even more so since McCollough got headbutted by Keifer Sutherland at the Met Costume Ball ...
That's a lot of boys, isn't it? We don't want her to make Alex Turner jealous. Now, we can only hope she misses Gok and gets him to join her there. That would be a blessed relief.
Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/may/21/fashion-alexa-chung