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Is Alexa Chung a "fabulous British icon?"

61 replies

EachandEveryone · 19/02/2016 17:36

As quoted by some style expert today. Is she? Really? She just looks like a hipster to me I didn't realise she'd change the fashion world. Mind you, I'm too old to appreciate the Pixies, Georgias and Caras so maybe I'm way off the mark. Do people follow Alexa's look? I guess they must do.

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ThursdayLastWeek · 19/02/2016 17:41

Not IMO.

I'm sure she's very nice and all, but her look is so far from anything I like.

toffeeboffin · 19/02/2016 17:44

Hipster doofus I reckon.

iseenodust · 19/02/2016 17:47

No. She hasn't been around long enough and is more of a 'bright young thing'. I like my icons to have achieved something tangible/reached a wider audience.

MadisonMontgomery · 19/02/2016 17:47

Umm no. Tbh I think she has appalling taste.

Hassled · 19/02/2016 17:50

I think if I was younger she'd be the celeb I'd most like to look like - she is gorgeous (apart from her weird knees), and always seems to me to be dressed well.

MadameDePompom · 19/02/2016 17:55

She's leggy and beautiful and looks gorgeous despite the butt ugly clothes she wears. I don't think I've ever coveted anything she's worn (apart from her glowing skin).

LadyIsabellaWrotham · 19/02/2016 17:55

Yes I reckon she's a style icon. It's not brain surgery or the Great British Novel but it's a thing. She's got a distinctive look and style.

MadameDePompom · 19/02/2016 17:56

I believe M&S are 'collaborating' with Alexa. My crystal ball tells me that the frumpsville items they'll come up with will not flatter anyone who isn't very tall and very slim.

YaySirNaySir · 19/02/2016 17:57

No not my style at all and I think her hair looks a mess. She wore that M&S debacle of a suede skirt which says it all.
I like her taste in men though.

Floisme · 19/02/2016 17:58

I've nothing against her at all but if she's an icon then I'm a national treasure.

SwedishEdith · 19/02/2016 18:00

I doubt most people have any idea who she is.

Wolpertinger · 19/02/2016 18:44

No. She's a very thin young woman who's managed to make a successful career out of being very thin and hanging around with magazine editors where she appears to pass for some sort of genius.

On her Lisa Eldridge video she came over as one of the most vapid people I'd had the misfortune to listen to.

And she always looks like her hair needs washing.

IWantedThatBiscuit · 19/02/2016 18:47

The fashion pack love her, dont they?

Nothing against her at all - she is a pretty young woman - but I dont aspire to her style at all. Skinny, slightly androgynous clothes style, always wearing awful clumpy shoes.Nah.

SingingSands · 19/02/2016 18:48

I don't think she is. She's just a clothes horse and good luck to her if that what she wants. But to say she's "an icon"... no.

gunting · 19/02/2016 18:49

No, not at all.

ZaraW · 19/02/2016 18:50

Yes, she's a bit quirky and different and has her own unique style which suits her well. Not sure the M&S thing is such a great idea, I've seen her in RL when I was in Bangkok a few years ago she is stunning.

ScarletForYa · 19/02/2016 18:53

To me she's always looked a bit ordinary with her Mumsy hair. She's nice looking but forgettable. Ten a penny I'd say.

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EachandEveryone · 19/02/2016 18:55

She is but I don't just think it's down to healthy eating that figure. Sometimes she looks like she's on another planet. I can't even remember where she started can you?

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Missionitreat · 19/02/2016 18:58

I first saw her on a youth channel 4 tv show and she always came across as very sharp with great wit and was soon moved on to other things.
She's always had her own eclectic style clothes wise.
I think she's brilliant and try's her best to stay modest but people just love her humour and quirkiness which is why she's is always in the papers for her style.

PitPatKitKat · 19/02/2016 19:07

No

Fairyliz · 19/02/2016 20:13

I am sure she is a lovely young woman but so far from M & S's core customers its laughable.

Has M @ S been infitrated by someone dtermined to ruin its clothing sales? You would think so the ridiculous decisions they keep making.

Madbengalmum · 19/02/2016 20:15

Thin and ungainly looking, not for m and s!

Sparkletastic · 19/02/2016 20:15

No

MamaLazarou · 19/02/2016 20:16

Her hair is like limp lettuce.

MetallicBeige · 19/02/2016 20:24

This is my favourite excerpt from Alexa Chung's 'book'.

“The other day I bumped into Florence (Welch) and Daisy (Lowe) who were staying at the Bowery Hotel. It was Sunday and I had to file copy the next day so I had my laptop with me.

"We go up to their room and Florence starts singing and draping scarves over lamps, Daisy strips off to her matching underwear, and I’m wrapped up in jumpers smoking a cigarette with a laptop.

“None of us were hanging out, we were just being us. I’m trying to get more work in, over-achieving, Daisy is floating around being sexy and Florence is just singing away.”

It's absolutely brilliant in it's self absorption, blatant name dropping, and complete unawareness of what a plonker she sounds.