Alexa Chung Breaks Down 20 Memorable Looks From 1992 To Now | Life In Looks

my life in looks long may it rain rain or a-i-n I'm not no hello British folk I'm Alexa Chung and this is my life in looks are we sitting comfortably then I shall begin [Music] a classic so this is a really stunning Ensemble I was really interested in clothes when I was very young I think probably because I lived in the countryside and mainly I wore my brother's jumpers and jobpers and stuff so when I got to wear my own clothes I really really had big plans for my outfits actually weirdly was quite shy when I was a kid modeling was not my ambition I don't think I thought I might be a horse riding ballerina obviously acrobat with absolutely no gymnastic prowess or a lawyer to upset my parents I think it is a good time to move on so I was a model and then I became a TV presenter for pop World which was a music television show and I was quite keen on being quite casual I just wanted to look like I looked and unfortunately at that time I looked like this I always liked music and I always liked rock and roll unfortunately what we're about to see is a lifelong obsession with Jane Birkin but like she's Jane Birkin I'm not so this is why this hair is pretty bad Glastonbury I think around this time in my life I really enjoyed the role play of being like a band girlfriend I was thinking about Anita pallenberg or women who supported men in bands in the sort of 60s and 70s and there is a like blueprint for that I think I thought that knee socks were really sexy looking at them now they're pretty Junior aren't they oh so cool never in my wildest dreams did I think I could ever like land a cover of Vogue this was the first one I did even though this is a cover with my face on it I was probably prouder of the fact that I had an article within the magazine because I'd always wanted to be a fashion journalist I think I'd written an article for this issue about being a tomboy basically because I think that is probably a big part of my style oh this is a Chanel show I'm wearing cycling shorts my first Chanel show I went to host a show for Channel 4 and I had to interview Carl Lagerfeld and when I got there I kind of blanked because I was really overwhelmed because it's so iconic and I ended up asking him a music question because that was the only thing I knew about and I said why did you put The Shirelles track at the beginning to open the show and he was like who are you I think he was quite excited to be asked about something other than the usual things he was always really comforting and um funny he was a great wit foreign this is a Valentino Couture outfit I wore to uh Awards with Chanel Couture boots which I still have these Space Age boots around this time I went on Fashion Police which was a TV show in the states that Joan Rivers hosted and I remember her asking me if I was single and I was like yes and she was like you want to know why and I was like you think that's sexy I was like I do think that's sexy this was a Chanel Couture thing that I wore in Paris with a Prada bag and Prada shoes this is the outfit I'd like to be buried in and I think it is always nice to know what you're going to go into the coffin wearing Couture is just the most luxurious experience you can feel that it's a different thing and you feel really Regal and naughty because if you do normal things in Couture is so fun this I watered the serpentine summer party it's Christopher Kane often when his collections come down the runway they make you feel a bit uneasy there is always this undercurrent of the wrong it's not a passive woman that he designs for it's um a whole interior world it's something where you feel like you're wearing someone's brain this is from filming absolutely fabulous the movie with Jordan and Suki I think Eddie was having a um dream sequence where she was hanging out with quote unquote cool people and we were happy to oblige it was almost not doing anything we just literally drank wine and smoked cigarettes and had a chat and they were like cut I do remember being slightly jealous of Suki's scene stealing ensemble what a boring dress now and she's got this beautiful coat on this is in New York my friend had a shop there called The Deep End club and I'm wearing her t-shirt which then became the thing that's my day-to-day look the classic silhouette vintage jeans I really love denim it's weird how much I'm obsessed with it it's such a practical item every single person has denim in their wardrobe and yet it's quite a hard thing to design and for me it's all about the pocket placement on the bum and how long the zip is I also don't tolerate anything with elastic in it I hate a one percent stretch it needs to be a hundred percent cotton foreign here I am at this this is Prada's Mumu show I love Nutri Prada she could literally spit in a glass and I'd be like how much she sort of plays with tropes kind of redefines femininity each time as much as I love Denim and men's tailoring I also have this weird affection for very girly saccharine gowns and dresses I think again because it's just a bit of a wink because it doesn't really suit my personality so when I put them on I find it quite funny and that's why I like the power of clothes as well because you really can affect other people's reactions to you based on what you've got on love love love love love love love I love this outfit it's Prada I'm wearing it to the British fashion Awards I am of Asian descent and I think it's fun to wear something that nods to that it's sort of a pajama-y In the Mood for Love thing I think I was trying to look like those chechiko paintings of the blue-faced Asian women and I felt like this outfit was reminiscent of some of their gowns and if I parted my hair on the side and did a cat eye I could kind of look like the blue woman I must remember to part my hair on the sidewall it's probably more beneficial to my quite angular face that's just a note to myself this was the first show I did for my brand Alexa Chung R.I.P we did this show in a church it was really fun there was a children's choir singing You Can't Always Get What You Want which now seems quite pertinent it was so fun and I felt really overwhelmed in that moment a lot of my friends and family came and it was a wedding theme because I felt like I was marrying myself to my future I cannot even begin to start processing or downloading all the things I learned because it was every day was kind of an onslaught and I hope that along the way I learned how to be a good boss and I know that I was by the very end I mean everyone did me so proud at the end it was incredible I'm a mermaid this is for Halloween in in New York City I love in America how Halloween you can really be whoever you want you don't have to be spooky my friend went as the best Halloween costume I've ever seen he went as an actor in an airport and he wore a baseball cap a script under his arm and he spent the whole night trying not to be seen and it was just like such a great commitment to the theme I'm wearing a suit with sandals these are real slacks and I wore them with a Chanel Orthopedic sandal I feel like I look like Danny DeVito in twins in a really good way this is what I wore to the Met Gala a couple of years ago when the theme was Camp I went to the design Library which is a great resource for prints and patterns and I found a piece of fabric from I guess the 1800s and we decided to transfer it into a brocade that was hand embroidered with sequins I was worried about navigating the stairs because of the Met Gala the staircase it really is like going to Cinderella Ball like it is that exact thing it's amazing but it's quite nerve-wracking this is me walking in the Mew Mew show we were waiting for Naomi to arrive um so we're all in like a very hot tunnel and then she finally did and it was so iconic she just arrived dressed and just went straight to the front of the queue and stormed down the thing and we were like yes bringing up the rear was Uma Thurman who came out and was literally just doing these amazing moves for the cameras at the end of the runway [Music] I love London Fashion Week [Music] sounded like I was unsure then but I'm not I'm wearing Simone rusher to a Simone Russia a Gucci bag some Alexa chunk of Superga trainers and some vintage Levi's I really enjoy Simone Rush's designs she's so clever and has built her own language and an identifiable silhouette and weirdly appropriate for All Occasions you could get married in one of her dresses and it could be the same dress that you wore to the supermarket I'm dressed up as the queen because I was doing a YouTube about Halloween and I kind of disturbingly had all the elements in my house like a scarf a barber pearl necklace granny glasses and a stuffed Corgi hindsight dressing up as the queen is embarrassing I guess but I don't have the embarrassment uh ticker anymore they trained it out of me this I wore to the Met Gala 2022 the theme was gilded glamor I'm gonna be transparent with you about this now okay I wasn't invited and I was packing up my apartment in New York I was due to leave on Saturday and on Friday Derek Blasberg called me and said would you like to go to the Met Gala on Monday and I said yes please um I had nowhere to stay I had no hair or makeup I had no dress and uh not to Pat myself on the back or anything but I kind of nailed it within hours and I just had dinner with Christian siriano I called him and asked if I could come and look at his lovely gowns um and I was very lucky that you had this knocking around I really had this idea that I could be a palette cleanser that night I'm in a stage in my life where I am sort of reflecting on things and thinking about things and not necessarily needing to be the one that's creating the loudest noise and this felt exactly right for how I was feeling in New York it felt a bit like this night was embracing my future of it that that concludes my life in looks I think we've ended on a high and now I'm going to sign it draw the same thing I've been drawing my entire life and one day maybe I'll meet this person I don't know who they are they just come out God it'd be quite fun to host a show like Art Attack any production companies want to do that I think it'll be really fun Alexa [Music] was here thank you for watching everyone I'm Alexa Chung still and that was my life and looks foreign

Channel: British Vogue

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Length: 12min 49sec (769 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 28 2022