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14 Jan

The British Enigma Alexa Chung

Alexa Chung – delicate style icon. British enigma in the global world, followed by more than four million fans on Instagram. Her brain is a cluster of fantastic ideas. She has effortlessly cool downtown style. Why? Because she has grown up in Hampshire as British country girl in the cosmopolitan family, riding horses and wearing Hunter wellington boots. Now she looks tender as a sexy hologram.

 

All or Nothing

 

Many have compared her style to Jane Birkin. Maybe itā€™s true. But for her looking good comes naturally and it is difficult to articulate her quirky approach to fashion. But we are sure that her look desperately cries: “Not dressing like a Kardashian.ā€ But thatā€™s not all. Alexa Chung is ā€œa style bombshell who flattens the best efforts of any American counterpart with the indescribable force of her courageous chic”. It sounds fantastic! But thatā€™s not all. She is an it-girl, cover-girl, TV presenter, writer (add her memoir iT to your reading list ), model, occasional DJ, designer, collaborator in Vogueā€¦ Sometimes she describes herself as ā€œnothingā€. It sounds weird but itā€™s some kind of mini existential crisis.

 

Alexa Chung at London Fashion Week

Alexa Chung attends the Emilia Wickstead show during London Fashion Week February 2019. Photo: Getty Images

Stylish Roots

 

US Vogue writes: ā€œAccording to the hundreds of blogs dedicated to photographing her every outfit, and the countless women who try to copy her style, Alexa Chung is the fashion icon of this generation.ā€

People accept her as a fresh dose of delicate beauty opposite to highlighted and brutal sexuality. She says that her style comes from her English mother – Breton tops and Barbourā€™s. But sheā€™s close to the French-girl Style, too. For her dressing is some kind of manipulation and how she would like others to feel about her. Her first fashion transformation happened when Alexa was at school when Britney Spearā€™s ā€œBaby One More Timeā€ came out. Then she decided to change her uniform and looked slutty.

Her second fashion guru was the incredible Jane Birkin. She virtually thanks her for the confidence ā€œto dress like a boy but act like a girl.ā€ Nowadays her advice is to stick to the classics because you canā€™t ever go wrong. Once she shared that modelling gave her ā€œlow self-esteemā€. Letā€™s look at her early fashion beginning. Her fashion obsession was sparked in the 1980s by a British television series, ā€œThe Clothes Show.ā€ At 16, she was scouted by a modelling agency at the Reading Music Festival. She was pushed ā€œto strip in front of creepy menā€. Fashion agents told her that she looked like a girl next door and should have her hair like that or that. She hated it. “If I know something’s expected of me, I won’t wear it or do it. It just seems boring” – Alexa said.

 

Kate Bosworth and Alexa Chung attend the Chloe show 2020. Photo: Getty Images

Broadcasting Live

 

Her success quickly transferred her to TV as a presenter. She was offered her first TV job at 22 and has been presenting ever since in the UK and the US. Her varied career has involved interviewing rock stars on Sunday mornings to teen audiences across the UK. ā€œI didnā€™t mean to be a TV presenter, I just hated modelling. It feels very odd that itā€™s turned into this ā€œit-girlā€ thing. What does that even mean? I wear clothes and go out.ā€

But TV brought her back to modelling .ā€œIt is weird. I am not sure how that happenedā€ – Alex Chung said. In 2016 she launched ALEXACHUNG, her own fashion brand: ā€œIā€™m always drawn to tradition, so I wanted the brand to be traditionalā€¦ But also weird. Unexpected.ā€ This brand works because Alexa herself is very visual, has a catalogue in her ā€œhead of thingsā€ and she always knows what sheā€™s looking for. In 2019 Alexa launched her own YouTube Channel as an incredibly exciting project. In the meantime, she is occasionally DJ: ā€œDJ-ing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has ā€œPlay some Rihannaā€ written on it. I prefer to play older songs because they are the ones I personally enjoy dancing and singing along to and modern dance music bores my brains out.ā€.

Chanel Ready To Wear - Fall/Winter 2011 - Photocall Alexa Chung Karl Lagerfeld

Alexa Chung and Karl Lagerfeld attend the Chanel Ready to Wear show as part of the Paris Womenswear Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2011. Photo: Getty Images

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