Alexa Chung

[Carrme]

So jealous of her Kills access.

 

[DaydreamNation]

does anyone have a pic of her in the navy tee that she wore to interview tom sturridge and she wore it when she was on T4 ... it says " Highly Evolved" can anyone ID please?
Maybe Marc by Marc Jacobs? Or maybe not? I know her "Off the Deep End" tee was !!!
Cheers

The Vines debut album was called 'Highly Evolved' - I'm guessing it's one of their band t-shirts.

 

[*CocoStar*]

Thanks so much DaydreamNation! xxxxx

 

[Chansons D'Amour]

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[gossiping]

she has good taste, the kills are really good B)

thanks for posting that jacket on ebay it's cute but i wish it didn't have so many buttons!

 

[delightful]

mad jealous that she went to the kills both nights; i went saturday but didnt see her

 

[NajiyF0714]

does anyone have a pic of her in the navy tee that she wore to interview tom sturridge and she wore it when she was on T4 ... it says " Highly Evolved" can anyone ID please?
Maybe Marc by Marc Jacobs? Or maybe not? I know her "Off the Deep End" tee was !!!
Cheers

You can fnd the shirt on Ebay. The seller's name is gurutees (100% positive feedback) and he sells the shirt in black, white, blue, red, etc. All sizes.

 

[DiamondSea]

Alexa Chung: ‘Now I’m left wondering which will bite me first – the dog or the chair’

Girl About Town

The oversized windows in my loft apartment, once a thing of beauty, are now my sworn enemies. They wake me up at 6am, they have very little respect for my privacy at night, and they’re virtually impossible to coax open. A day spent touring the best and worst of New York’s furniture stores in search of a way to block out the light has left me a broken expert on soft furnishings.

It’s OK, though, because now I have the items I require; two metal stag’s-head doorknockers and a length of rope to tie between them will have to suffice until I can summon the strength and the dollars to experiment with the distinctly parental practice of ordering custom-made blinds. Yuk.In keeping with the stress of a transatlantic move I dedicated 10 minutes of yesterday to occupying a rainy rooftop and trying to make myself cry.

My hard drive had just died, which meant this column, and another article I was writing, were lost. I was also convinced that all the things I had packed into boxes to be shipped over here were destined to get intercepted, and was so frustrated I took to top of my building to get angry in the rain.But then a woman came up for a cigarette and my desperate attempts to muster up some tears were thwarted as my eyeballs and my brain became distracted/baffled by her clog-clad feet. Maybe clogs in the rain make perfect sense – and seeing as I was the one up there failing to form tears for no particular reason, I really wasn’t one to judge.

The only thing I achieved from the whole childish exercise was a ruined pair of Les Chiffoniers leather trousers (they hate puddles of water) and a frizzing fake fur leopard-print coat (again, doesn’t fare well in the wet). By the time I got downstairs to my apartment, my Mac had switched itself back on, and when I re-read the column I realised it was rubbish anyway.This morning I woke to the irritating squawk of my doorbell and was greeted by the cardboard boxes I had crammed full of clothes and kitchenware back in England, all seven of them present and correct. Hallelujah! So now I have a LOT of cutlery but not so many of the things to sit on. Back to Crate and Barrel to choose between uninspiring looking pieces of furniture jazzed up by their designated names, I have ordered an olive-coloured sofa called “Martine”.

I realised I had a soft spot for Martine when I saw another man inspecting her and got a bit defensive watching his face turn from interest to disdain as he groped at the seat cushions. I enjoyed watching other couples testing out seating options, more often than not their appearance matched the upholstery.A lot of the people in my building own very small dogs, the kind of size that makes me feel nervous I might step on them accidentally, but also the kind of size that makes me want to step on them accidentally just to see whether they’re real or not. I’ve tried to make friends with most of them (the dogs) but some are trickier to impress than others.

One particularly stocky specimen appears to have a face designed to perfectly express its hatred towards me. I think she’s called Betty, but then again, after the owner informed me she was rather neurotic I may have drifted off a little. I met Betty in the lift on my journey towards the junk shop in the basement of our building. There I purchased a pale blue velvet chair that my friend was adamant was full of bed bugs. I decided to take the gamble and buy it anyway. Now I’m left wondering: what will bite me first – the dog or the chair? So far so good. Last night I went to watch The Kills and The Horrors play in Williamsburg where everyone is young and hot and formed part of a sea of plaid shirts. Both bands were amazing, but the crowd seemed a little too polite to really get into it, apart from one guy who was apparently being so rude that he ended up getting himself into an onstage kerfuffle with Jamie Hince.

After the show I sat in a row of English people who have all just moved here and realised that, since being in New York, I’ve seen more people from London than I usually see in an average week living in London. It’s time to be a little more adventurous.

The Independent

 

[atlantis]

she's a lucky b*tch living in new york but cries? lord, grow up.

 

[Capn_Birdseye]

she's a lucky b*tch living in new york but cries? lord, grow up.

She lives in Williamsburg (I think). I wouldn't get too jealous.

 

[Lady Bird]

she's a lucky b*tch living in new york but cries? lord, grow up.

Oh God I'm a grown woman and I've cried when I've moved to different countries, despite how exciting it is you've just left your friends, your home town, and those simple familarities like where the nearest supermarket is, you have to face mountains of paperwork to set up bank accounts or get a new mobile when you have no credit history in the country, your family is on a different time zone if you want to call them spur of the moment, even the frustration of trying to order a water and no one in America understands you unless you pronounce it 'Warr-der'. Cut some slack.

 

[alicia753]

Thanks for pics

 

[GasolineRainbow]

Oh God I'm a grown woman and I've cried when I've moved to different countries, despite how exciting it is you've just left your friends, your home town, and those simple familarities like where the nearest supermarket is, you have to face mountains of paperwork to set up bank accounts or get a new mobile when you have no credit history in the country, your family is on a different time zone if you want to call them spur of the moment, even the frustration of trying to order a water and no one in America understands you unless you pronounce it 'Warr-der'. Cut some slack.

Exactly. Moving to new country is extremely stressful, both on an emotional and a practical level. Alexa is lucky that the native language is the same as back home, but you know, New Yorkers aren't known for being friendly and super-helpful right off the bat. I imagine it would take some time to get accustomed to living in NYC.

 

[saturdaysgirl]

*sniff sniff* that Alexa didn't go to the Met.
Thanx for the new moving bash pics!
I liked the article but I think that's only because I got to hear personal details of Alexa's. She posted most of it on twitter anyway.....
And I agree with Lady Bird and others....lay off Alexa.... moving for a foreign country is difficult and stressful...but Lady Bird but it accurately and succinctly so I won't say anymore.
Can't wait for new pics!

 

[Navygreen]

I don't understand how people expected her to go to the MET.
She's not a model/muse to any designer and compared to about 50% of the guests this year, her presence would be deemed insignificant.

 

[natalea52]

I really enjoyed this weeks article

 

[peachescream]

perhaps a little more relevant, though, than Blake Lively and Jessica Beil...

 

[HeatherAnne]

^ Agree more relevant than a lot of people who attended.

I'm not enjoying her column much anymore. I prefer when she writes on a subject instead of reading about her day-to-day activities, which reads more like a journal and is usually rather uninteresting.

 

[natalea52]

^ maybe not in the US...not for now anyway. Cant stand J Biel actually

 

[Navygreen]

perhaps a little more relevant, though, than Blake Lively and Jessica Beil...

Are you serious? Blake Lively is in Gossip Girl, one of the most popular and fashionable TV shows at the moment and Jessica Biel's career, style [and personal affairs] are not too shabby either. These ladies "sell", whether we like it or not.
You can't compare them to Alexa, sure she's up-and-coming and whatnot, but her MTV show hasn't even been broadcasted yet. Apart from hipsters and fashionistas, not many people know or care about her outside the UK.