Alexa Chung

Journalist

101 Quotes

I feel like it's weird to list all my crap qualities.

People want an easy sound bite.

I don't think I extend my hatred to other people's outfits.

My best party friend...? Fifi Brown. And Poppy Delevingne. She's so fun and so inclusive - she really is the glue.

I didn't moisturise when I was younger, but when I got to 27 I decided to start slathering myself in oil, and now I'm obsessed with moisturising.

I've been learning French a bit through my work with Longchamp, and I've been in France quite a lot. And I really love how they express themselves. I especially love when something is untranslatable.

I'm always helping out girlfriends, and then I'm wondering, who's going to look after me?

Often, I do translatlantic overnight flights from New York, and when I land, I have to do my eyes - I feel weird without it.

I'd love to interview Mick Jagger, but that might be scary.

London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer to the process, to street style, to a sense of humour.

I tend to splurge on fancy dresses because I always think I'll get a lot of wear out of them, but it's false logic. You should really spend more money on the things you wear every day, like jeans.

I admire American women because they are really good at putting a look together that is sophisticated. As British girls, we lean toward being a bit more messy, a bit more undone, and maybe a little more eccentric.

When I was going to Paris for Paris Fashion Week, I'd often walk down the street and go into all the different shops that we didn't necessarily have in the U.K., and Maje was definitely one of the ones that stood out for me.

When I'm wearing makeup, I choose between doing my eyes or mouth because I don't want to look like a beauty pageant child.

Being British, I don't want to be all paranoid and arrogant and think people are looking at me because, really, I'm nothing.

London street style is the best in the world. Fact.

I play guitar a bit. I'm trying to learn drums - I feel like I can play violin. I've never tried, but I just feel like I can.

I love Simone Rocha. I just think she's really clever.

It's funny because I think that both France and Britain are known for their distinctive styles, and everyone says that France is so chic and elegant but I think, more than that, French women are renowned for dressing in what suits them.

I just don't like people to be dictated to. I think you should dress however you want.

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