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Alexa Chung’s denim scars

Alexa Chung Model Advice Blog

Alexa Chung was ‘scarred’ by wearing the wrong kind of denim as a youngster.
The British TV presenter – who is currently working with the US store J. Crew to create her own fashion range, inspired by her personal style – says the fabric was a staple material in her wardrobe, but sometimes even she got it wrong.
Recalling her childhood, she told Britain’s Vogue magazine: ‘The Levi’s brand back then was so in touch with youth culture that it was hard to believe it hadn’t been created in a laboratory by a collective of style bloggers. Even being in the Levi’s store was like stepping on to exotic American soil, which is silly, because we were in Guildford.
‘And if you strayed from that brand, you were mocked. I still recall my hapless attempt to wear an outgrown pair of black Gap jeans, leaving me branded and scarred by the nickname Drainpipes for an entire miserable summer.’
Despite being a style icon, Alexa, 26, has realised that sometimes what looks good on the catwalk won’t work in real life.
She said: ‘I recently tried to work the denim jacket/denim jeans thing, having been inspired by the Spring D+G and Herve Leger shows, but realised once I left the house that it’s an outfit better suited to runways or stadium stages, neither of which I frequent.’
Alexa’s fashion range will mimic her own wardrobe, which will include dungaree dresses, high-waisted skinny jeans, polka dot tea dresses and oversized wool jackets.
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