Top 146 Quotes & Sayings by Alexa Chung - Page 2

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

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

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 only ever involve myself with brands I truly adore.

My image has swallowed me up! I've given so much out to this projected version of myself, but now I have to live up to this character that I don't even associate half the time.

I love Gap for affordable men's sweaters.

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 admire American women because they are really good at putting a look together that is sophisticated. As British girls, we lean toward being a bit more messy, a bit more undone, and maybe a little more eccentric.

I feel uncomfortable in anything tight or body-con.

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

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

People comment on my voice. They always ask me if I'm ill.

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

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

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

I don't think I extend my hatred to other people's outfits.

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

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

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.

Dark lipstick on me is both a risk and a disaster.

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

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

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

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.'

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

My brain is a big cluster of stuff. It moves quickly and loses focus quickly, so I need many projects to keep me stimulated - it's a luxury to be able to do lots of different things: style, write, present, DJ or just consult. It can't be any other way; I think I would shrivel up and fall asleep forever.

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

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

I've been learning French a bit through my work with Longchamp, and I've been in France quite a lot. And I really love how they express themselves. I especially love when something is untranslatable.

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.

I'm bad at trends. Just wear what you want and what suits you.

I'd say I have more shoes than anything else; they're a good way to update a look. Bags and shoes - it's like decorating a cake.

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.

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.

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 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 don't like when people seem to put every single thing on and just walk up and down outside waiting to be photographed. I think that's a bit lame.

People want an easy sound bite.

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

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 terrified of being bored and not learning.

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.

Hair is so linked to how we feel and everyone goes for something radical after a break-up, but my advice if you've suffered heartbreak or you’ve broken up with someone is not to touch your hair. It's the first thing women do but you're not in a fit state to make long-term decisions. You'll have to spend four years growing it out. Buy a lipstick instead. Go and kiss loads of other people, but don't f***ing touch your hair.

On the same Australian trip, I brought back a pair [of Ugg] for my then boyfriend who was a photographer. He wore them all the time. He used to wear them with Levis twisted jeans and a vintage T-shirt. This is 2002. They looked great on him. I guess it takes a certain kind of man to pull them off but they have other ones that are less typical of this, I think.

Looking effortless takes a lot of effort. When I get new Converse I dedicate some time at home to shoving mud on them so they don't look squeaky clean.

I mean, props to Paris Hilton because she's doing it really well and for someone that's such a wealthy heiress she doesn't really have to lift a finger at all. She was the first example of really strong branding and is obviously a very clever businesswoman. I remember recently they printed in a British magazine, they compared her to Kim Kardashian in the sales of perfume and all of this other stuff. She still makes huge revenue from all of her different business endeavors.

I just think that whole culture of hatred, and also feeling like it's your right to judge people when you don't know them, is really f***ed up. So I'm pleased I experienced that side of it, so I can learn to be a better person on the other side of it. I'm sure in the past I've been judgmental too ... Self esteem, that's something you've got to work on yourself. I know for me it's different day to day.

People get intimidated because they think I have everything, but it's just not true.

I hate online bullying. Those little comment boxes can brim with the most vicious, acidic, and pointless remarks.

The chihuahua and the pink velour track suit. I think it's kind of an iconic look.

I think it's about time people stopped judging women on their appearance and more on their intellect. Like you can appreciate my style without having to appreciate my weight. It's not actually mutually exclusive. I just get frustrated because just because I exist in this shape doesn't mean that I'm like advocating it.

Looking effortless takes a lot of effort.

Thank you, Jane Birkin, for providing me with infinite outfit ideas and the confidence to dress like a boy but act like a girl.

The problem with heartbreak is that nobody can help you when you're heartbroken. Nobody and nothing. Not the films you watch alone desperately searching for a character who feels the way you do, not the glasses or bottles of whisky you keep by your bed and certainly not Instagram.

Nobody goes through life without having their heart broken and one day you'll wake up and it'll be okay.

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

Boys say they don't mind how you get your hair done. But then they leave you for someone with really great standard girl hair and the next thing you know you're alone with a masculine crop crying into your granola.

Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me.