Top 55 Alexa Chung Quotes

I would get very bored if I just did one thing.

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

I’m indie through and through. I’ve always gone out with boys in bands.

My dad cut my hair once – I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.

Everyone I’ve ever fallen in love with, I just fell in love with! I didn’t date them to try.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

My art teacher told me I’d be suited to graphic design, but I just couldn’t, because it was what my dad had done.

I don’t think love should make you feel uneasy. When you feel sick, I don’t think that’s love – that’s infatuation.

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.

I have never lived in a time when people haven’t told me what I look like.

I love Simone Rocha. I just think she’s really clever.

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

Often, I do translatlantic overnight flights from New York, and when I land, I have to do my eyes – I feel weird without it.

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

My father taught me how to draw horses – for this I shall be eternally grateful.

People want an easy sound bite.

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.

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

I feel uncomfortable in anything tight or body-con.

I really like action movies. The ‘Die Hard‘ franchise. And the ‘Bourne’ movies.

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

I’m rubbish – I’m really not good at my beauty regimes.

I’m not preaching about things you should do, I’m not political or anything. I’m probably not the best role model.

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.

London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer to the process, to street style, to a sense of humour.

You know you’ve become a brat when you have a room you like at the Bristol in Paris.

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.

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

It’s funny because I think that both France and Britain are known for their distinctive styles, and everyone says that France is so chic and elegant but I think, more than that, French women are renowned for dressing in what suits them.

I used to have a voice because I was interviewing people and writing, but as soon as I got swept up in the fashion world, I was just a pretty girl at a party wearing a pretty dress.

I grew up in a very visual household. My dad is a designer; my sister is a designer. My brother is an amazing architect who does music. But I think in the Chung household, how things looked was an important part of who you are.

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

I spend most of my money in Prada or plane tickets.

I wash my face and then use lots of moisturiser.

I think it’s cool that London Fashion Week is about young designers trying wacky things.

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

I’m always hairy. I swear too much.

I love the ’60s and sort of wish all design had stopped in 1967. That would be my dream. They were really just nailing it – everyone looked great – but then it started getting a bit slippery after that.

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 think it’s every girl’s dream, a little bit, to be a model because it seems from the outside to be a glamorous industry and I was really into fashion, and I remember just being excited and wanting to be part of that.

I play guitar a bit. I’m trying to learn drums – I feel like I can play violin. I’ve never tried, but I just feel like I can.

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

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

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

No experience exists unless it’s a shared one.

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’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 went out with a 40-year-old when I was 19, and since then, I don’t really think much about numbers meaning anything. But I do feel like maybe I’ve neglected to work on developing emotionally and taking care of myself.

I prefer using cream-based products on my skin. I love having that summery dewy skin – I like using cream blushers as well.