Alexa Chung - I don't get it!!

[knowler]

Alexa Chung has just released her first collection. £330 for a polo shirt!! I just don't get the adulation that she attracts. Yes, she's tall and skinny and generally looks ok in what she wears. But so do a lot of ppl. What am I missing?

collection here

[squoosh]

What the hell is he doing with her?

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[PickAChew]

I got the grey v neck sweater, which was lovely for 3 washes, by which point it would have been too small for my 4'9 MIL.

[joangray38]

I have the m&s blue high neck shirt from her collection - it is v flattering and I often get nice comments about it, but it was £16 not the £££ of her new collection.

[PickAChew]

Most of it can be categorised as painful, impractical or ugly.

[DonaldTrumpsTrump]

I'm also not a fan of hers but she does wear the odd nice outfits. Although people are saying she's really tall - she's 5'8 which isn't that tall. I was expecting her to be 6 foot or something, I'm 5'9 and while I^^ am tall, I wouldn't say I'm 'instantly recognisable' because of it or known as being mega tall.

[toffeeboffin]

What the hell is he doing with her?

I thought he liked busty, slightly portly, short blondes? like me

[squoosh]

I'm not sure they're dating as such. It's rumoured to be more of a mutually beneficial alliance.

[AngeloMysterioso]

I'm not really into her to be honest, she always seems a bit bug-eyed and too cool for school.

I am mad jealous that she's dating Alexander Skarsgard.

[ClementineWardrobe]

Thanks dulcimena and others who've explained what she does, I had no idea she was a presenter or a model, it sounded sarcastic to ask, it was a genuine question.

[NotYoda]

Her look is very influential, and most of the time I really like it. But only very thin women/teens can carry it off

She's beautiful but very very skinny - her legs aren't 'great' - they worry me. She's not a gangly 15 year old, she's a grown woman

I think she comes over as very bright and rather nice

I have seen her in the flesh a few times - didn't want to draw attention to herself but instantly recognisable - tall.

[MovingOnUpMovingOnOut]

I like her :)

I don't like her clothes, although I am considering running up a dress out of green grocers' grass and then flogging it for a squillion quid.

[squoosh]

I think she's very beautiful. And she came across as a nice warm person when she appeared on celebrity Bake Off.

Fashion wise I'm not overly impressed, her red carpet look is often some velvet dress that looks like something an 8 year old would have worn to family parties in 1984. Although she will sometimes wear an outfit that looks absolutely amazing. But there's no denying the massive influence she's had over the high street in the last few years, Breton tops, Peter Pan collars, loafers etc.

Her M&S collection was a horror though. I seem to remember a particularly ugly yellow dress.

[user1495707114]

I don't know anything about Alexa Chung but I just have to say that using sugar daddies is 100% NOT a poor thing. Tons of pretty well off women use them. I have seen it personally. So that's not a very good point.

[CoolCarrie]

Moss, Campbell et all smoke like chimneys, they won't look soo good with emphysema

[toffeeboffin]

Her legs are incredible.

[ElspethFlashman]

She is a big smoker. Constant faaaaaag in her hand. I suspect that's part of the whole insouciant cool thing. Personally I don't think it's a great look.

[CoolCarrie]

I think she looks as if she needs a good wash, just like Kate Moss, maybe that is the appeal to some.

[JaneJeffer]

I like this kind of stuff on her. She has lovely eyes.

[Wingles10]

My source was, unashamedly, blind gossip.

[BringMeTea]

I think she generally looks great. She is definitely underweight. Definitely fancy her boyfriend.

[BusterGonad]

I've just found pictures of her with her dad, when they met Kate Middleton, I doubt her family are short of a few bob as apparently he introduced her to Kate! I really doubt she needs a sugar daddy.

[ElspethFlashman]

She does have a big backer - there was something in Vogue about it.

But I very much doubt it's anything other than a business arrangement.

[silkpyjamasallday]

@Wingles10 she ran off with an older lover when she was 18, but as far as I am aware no one is funding her collection privately she is dating Alexander skarsgard currently, she is a commodity that sells well, and has brands clambering over each other to collaborate, I doubt sourcing funding through traditional means would have been a problem. She also comes from a privileged background, those who prostitute themselves under the guise of 'sugar daddies' are generally not. I think it's a mean to insinuate she got where she is by sleeping with some rich man.

[silkpyjamasallday]

I've always liked her, but she came on the scene when I was an impressionable and fashion obsessed teenager. I like the fact she doesn't try to look 'sexy' or dress for the male gaze she rarely wears a lot of slap, no fake tan, fake tits, fake eyebrows, fake lips. Most girls when I was younger wanted to go for the Towie/geordie shore/kardasian look and I have never been about that sort of thing. She is also fairly intelligent, practically Mensa levels compared to most ladies that are in the media and has interests beside taking pouting selfies scantily clad.

I remember being disappointed to find out she had a stylist rather than just dressing in her own taste but I like her quirkiness, the juxtapositions of girlish dresses with boots, Peter Pan collars, classic trench coats, lots of classic things with a twist like altered proportions, an unexpected fabric or making a tea dress look tomboyish. I won't be buying from her collection as I think it's overpriced, but if she were to do a high street collaboration with a younger brand I might be interested. Her m&s stuff was ok but nothing really jumped out at me.

[Wingles10]

I read that she has an uber rich 'sugar daddy' type connection going on and he's also well mixed in the press circles so knows how to her name out there. He's also funded her collection.