Alexa Chung- modern British style icon?

[AngelinaJolly]

...according to Mulberry whose latest bag is "inspired by and named after" her
I think she's a great looking girl, but I only remember her sniggering inanely on pop programmes behind her super-long legs.
What have I missed?

Well, she's uber slim and pretty and wears granny gear. My dd thinks she walks on water

I always thought her long legs made her looka bit horsey

wasn't she vouge (or summats) number 1 style icon 2009?

my 15 years old sis is skinny and loves granny gear!

Yes she is like a stylish foal

IF she was going out with Peter Andre ahe wouldn;t even feature in the most stylish list. Her boyfriend ups the cool stakes

she looks like she exists on caffeine and nicotine a la Kate Mosse

she is beautiful, and so looks great despite the kooky, retro clothing, not because of it.

Were I to wear the same outfits, I would look like a menopausal librarian.

them's the breaks .

People say i look like her - i'm not uber skinny though and don't see it. She has a cool name.

i find she wears alot of the stuff we used to wear in 1985

ITA Martha- She's a model- so looks great in most clothes and she mixes a bit of high street with designer, er, stop the press then!

I read an article on her in Vogue a year or two ago and was hoping for a strongly written piece (my kids share her ethnic heritage) but was embarrassed at how juvenile she came across, in spite of her experience in the fashion industry. She was fawning over Karl Largerfeld because "he told her she didn't smell like the other models" FGS.

I see that she has been promoting the HVP jab and respect her for that, but modern British style icon???

I can see her appeal to teenagers but are they likely to be shopping at Mulberry for their handbags?

She's pretty and oh so skinny.

I don't think you become a style icon when you're so young - takes a few years surely.

She is very very skinny. I don't think you need many more talents than that to be a mulberry style icon. I mean, I really don't think anyone's interested in her wit and chat.

She is, apparently, the most googled subject in GB. Or was. Or something. My dh came home with that fact (I think he'd been apprised of it on some e-marketing seminar or other).

It seems that a lot of women google her for inspiration on how to put a modern, but not alarming, look together. And presumably other stuff.

If your dd (or you) is wearing brogues ... the Chungster is the cause. Apparently. And she's gone mass market - didn't she have a big spread in some magazine (I don't think it was as high-end as Vogue) about her "tomboy" look?

I think the whole point of it is that she's not Kate Moss. Which is kind of sad. Because I remember being slightly too old to "get" the whole Kate Moss thing!

I think she's unobjectionable. She seems keen to establish her credentials as a serious person, which is nice, I guess. She always makes a point of saying how soul destroying she found life as a model. She insists she wants a serious, long-term media career, yearns to front a cultural programme ... which is a slightly different message to be putting out there, though obviously not quite working for Medecin sans frontieres (but then, how many of us do that?) ... Who knows. Celebrity culture is straaange.

I LOVE her

So do Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, and US Vogue as they all feature her all the time. She is v v v pretty and puts things together really well, lots of examples here

I like that she hasn't gone too Park Avenue since she went to the US, but she has done some great red carpet outfits lately ( they are at the end of the photo gallery)

The Mulberry Alexa is similar to the vintage bags she often carries.

Wouldn't mind if Mulberry did bag named after me and sent to me in every colour possible

Martha - LOL at monpausal librarian.

I think AC is great. She has the look I've been aiming for all my life.

She never looks cheap or over-done.

And she's superbright and witty. And yep long legs.

monpausal menopausal

I do worry about the brogues thing though. Well worry is putting it a little strongly but honestly there are not many women/girls who can carry that particular look off.

You do need alexa's endless legs.

I do like her hair too - keep wondering if I should have mine like that. God - how old am I?

Actually I started the trend for tasselled brogues, not her. I've been wearing them on and off since 1989. I expect she saw me somewhere and was inspired.

But MrsSB do you wear them bare legged with a teeny tiny skirt

Not anymore, sadly. Strictly a ribbed tights look now, which still enables a teeny skirt at least.

Tracey just don't brush it. Ever.

MrsSeanBean - I had some tasselled brogues in about 1989 too, possibly 1988. My tasselled brogues had a removable tassell piece which laced into the shoe. I remember once tracing the tassell fringed piece and looking in a charity shop for something to cut up and make a brand new tassell. I'd love to be able to say I was off my tits on cocaine, but no.

I still think about those shoes from time to time and feel they were possibly the best shoes I ever had.

I think a teeny skirt is mandatory with brogues, verges on the very frumpy otherwise. The more leg on show (thickly encased in wool, natch) the better.

I used to wear a very short velvet skirt it deep plum. I was retro when it wasn't fashionable.

it in deep plum.