Top 55 Alexa Chung Quotes

I worry all the time that I’m going to run out of ideas, you know? I always tell my mom my fashion ideas, because I know she’ll remember them.

People want an easy sound bite.

I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.

It was once people began taking my picture every time I left the house – because it’s an easy fashion shot – that I started getting a bit weirder about going out without any makeup on, and I think that’s when I started wearing foundation every day.

I think Maje typifies that French vibe where it’s simple items that are very practical, very wearable but also, like, incredibly chic and expensive-looking.

If I’m doing my hair myself, I just wash it and let it naturally dry. I’m actually quite good at doing hair; if I wear it up I usually do it myself.

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

I respect people that find writing easy, because I have focus problems. I’ll spend five days eating cereal and YouTubing and two hours writing the article.

Everything doesn’t have to be perfect, I’ve realised. You can learn as you go.

I’m interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven’t seen.

Tech companies approach you to hold something in a picture and then say, ‘This is what I want you to write on your Twitter.’ There are people who get away with that and look really cool doing it, but I’m just not one of them.

When I used to work in television, a tip was rather than looking down the barrel of the camera and imagine people watching, which is terrifying, imagine your most discerning friend observing you, and imagine you’re just talking to them.

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

I did TV for a bit, and somewhere along the line, I started writing a column for ‘The Independent’ newspaper in England, and now I write features for ‘British Vogue.’

Being excitable and passionate is what makes you look good because if you’re engaged in what’s going on, you radiate youth.

I don’t like it when people don’t know the difference between ‘their’, ‘they’re’, ‘there’.

When I was a model, I started with an opinion, but was encouraged to lose it. It began as play-acting, but then I lost sight of myself a bit: so when I did the audition for ‘Popworld’ and they asked my opinion, I felt like crying with happiness.

I’m just really good at dressing my body’s proportions.

A bad outfit can really get me down. If I’m wearing something really normal and boring, it’s like torture.

I’m not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant.

I’ve come to terms with the fact that if you’re on TV, lots of people like you and lots of people hate you, and once you’re OK with that, you apply it to everything.

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

Music is my sport, and I’m the number-one athlete.

A roll-neck and some flat shoes is about as good as it gets.

Fashion’s a huge part of my life, but I don’t necessarily feel comfortable always talking about clothes on my personal social media.

I always write ‘Magic Potion’ on my perfume bottles so when I use them, it feels magical – I make spells in the morning when I put them on.

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’m really interested in photography, like every other human being.

If I can’t even be bothered to brush my hair, I don’t think I should start getting face work… I think it would look a bit try-hard.

I grew up in a miniature village in the middle of the countryside in England, quite secluded from the outside world. I was always enamored by the fashion industry.

I don’t want to say, ‘Yeah, I changed at 30,’ because no, it was chronically the same. But I got more relaxed about things.

No experience exists unless it’s a shared one.

My friends found out that I was writing a book on Twitter. It didn’t seem worth mentioning over dinner. They’re all so successful themselves.

I didn’t mean to be a TV presenter, I just hated modeling. It feels very odd that it’s turned into this ‘It-girl’ thing. What does that even mean? I wear clothes and I go out. It’s so weird.

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

If I know something’s expected of me, I won’t wear it or do it. It just seems boring.

I think you achieve a lot more through love than negativity.

Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.

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.

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don’t really keep track of the brand as it’s usually a number of them I’ve smushed together.

It’s a weird day and age when you can tire of icons simply by overexposure.

I wash my face and then use lots of moisturiser.

For my art GCSE, I did a screen print of the Queen’s head that was basically an Andy Warhol rip-off, but I didn’t realise.

I’m always hairy. I swear too much.

No one says the word ‘quirky’ much in England. I guess because people are more naturally eccentric.

If it’s comfy, it probably doesn’t look good.

When I was a teenager, I used to come to Selfridges, and it was very swanky and overwhelming, and I’d think, ‘Wow, this is amazing.’ I would never have imaged having my own area in the beauty hall! It’s incredible.

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.

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

My look is pretty low maintenance, I have a great team around me for hair and make-up, and they have also taught me some great tricks over the years for when I’m doing my own.

Every day, I think of designs, but I don’t write them down, and I forget. If only I had an office.

I love Gap for affordable men’s sweaters.

I’d like to give anyone else a go at being scrutinised. Daily. It’s not easy.

I’m never going to be one of those people who is good at organization. But I’m very visual. I have a catalog in my head of things I already own, so it’s easy to shop and I always know exactly what I’m looking for.

I feel like some women do get away with doing these sexy shoots and looking like they’re being really empowered. For me, I’d feel really uncomfortable in that situation and a bit like I was being taken advantage of.