Alexa Chung’s two-tone weave and lollipop head cover the November issue of Elle UK. I’ve not been following Chung and pretty much stopped paying attention to her after her TV show was taken off air, but she’d been Stateside for a while and was moderately-successful while there. Not every one’s talked about that much (though the tabs didn’t seem to know what to make of her distinctly London girl-style). Chung speaks in the excerpts below about not ‘trying’ to break America and not being focused enough to make her show a success (I’m reading into her comment but that seems to be what she is getting at). More below on her never doing drugs, personal style, and having a bag named after her.
- On America: “In New York, everything is insanely work orientated. It’s been a lesson — you can’t come here and not work really, really hard. I haven’t tried to ‘break America’ but I have learnt that I’m ambitious. It’s just not focused. I want to be good at lots of things.”
- On drugs: “I’m too much of a show-off not to have done all this. I’d have been a nightmare otherwise. Imagine if I hadn’t had a way to express myself! It’s why I don’t do drugs. I’ve never ever tried coke. My friends are like, ‘Alexa, no!’ I would be a real problem.”
- On her style: “I reckon I’ve got it nailed, so if he doesn’t like what I’m wearing, he’s the one who’s wrong. I say: ‘You just stick with the music.’ . . . I do sexy sometimes, but never slutty. I’m quite proud that geeky, asexual dressing has become cool. It’s good to promote a different look. It’s cooler to get something for a fiver in a charity shop, than spend five grand in Versace.”
- On having a bag named after her: “It’s like a rapper becoming famous and then getting all their trainers free. When I was modelling, all I wanted was to become the Mulberry model so I could get a discount. When I got the Popworld job, I bought myself a Bayswater as a reward. So when they phoned up and asked if it was OK to name a bag after me, it just felt like the most ridiculous, amazing thing ever.”
