Alexa Chung | Would You Wear It Now | Who What Wear
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May 1, 2025
We asked Alexa Chung to revisit some of her earlier fashion looks, tell us the stories and memories behind the outfits, and answer the question, "Would You Wear It Now?"
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Don't know why we're playing this game, because quite clearly I think that I have never done
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a bad outfit. So I mean, I feel like the answer is going to be yeah, but let's see
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Oh God, guys. Take it back. Oh man. So this is an outfit, wow, I'm really getting all the brands in
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So I'm actually at a Topshop show in London Fashion Week. I'm very proud of my tan
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I think I'd just come back from Spain. That's the beauty of a September London moment
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is that you tend to look the most well you could look. March or like end of Feb Paris
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being the worst you can possibly look. Anyway, I'm wearing a Topshop Leopard Print skirt
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Topshop unique roll neck jumper, sweater, is what you call those, Prada shoes
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and a Chanel milk handbag. And for some reason I've got pigtails
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Yeah, so that's that. I don't mind, I mean at least the silhouettes
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true to my vibe, which is mini skirt, roll neck, bits and bobs, flat shoe
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And quite often I'm just problem solving. So if you attend a show
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it's kind of rude to not wear the designer. So this was Topshop and I picked a couple things
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Do they go together? Not necessarily, but I'm just ticking it off
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Would I wear this now? I don't hate it, it's just not like right now
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Yes! Yes! So Glastonbury Music Festival is a thing that happens in the south of England every year
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It's actually a kind of pagan ancient site where the ley lines are such that humans
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have been gathering there since Druid times. And now it's the place of a music festival
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which this is obviously a very arid year, which is very, very rare, it's usually covered in mud
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It's where you see those photographs of crazy people like using tents as a boat because it's usually flooded
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Glastonbury style, actually something that I like about it is that it's a very wonderful festival
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where for the whole weekend, no one judges anyone. It's like this weird British utopia
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And actually what you have on matters none. That said, obviously we all got savvy to the idea
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that there's paps in a certain area of Glastonbury. So if you're gonna walk through that area
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even with your worst hangover, bing, bing, bing, you have to be dressed to impress
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The sunglasses are purely because I don't know what direction my eyes are moving in
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I'm not ashamed to admit that after a few seasons of going to Glastonbury, I started bringing a hair tong
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with me because I was like, I don't want flat hair. I gonna do my hair every time I leave this Winnebago Also I like in a luxury position whereby I never actually camped there I in like a glamping area This denim jacket is from this AG collaboration that I did
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The ubiquitous wellies, which I'm not allowed to say the brand of because I now work with Barber
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but we all know those ones. And a Bella Freud sparkly mini dress
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which I would still wear. Honestly, I was just ripping off Kate Moskos one year
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She wore a silver like thing and she looked so good. And I thought being in a field
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and having the audacity to wear silver, like a disco nighttime look is hilarious
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That's that, would I put it on? yeah. Oh, there's loads of them
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This is a roundup from 2011 in Who What Wear. Thanks guys for always being there for me
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We're now in 2020 and I'm just pleased I'm still rocking a gladiator sandal
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I mean, this is amazing. I still have that coat. It's like a mohead Charles Anastas coat
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These Chanel boots I wore so much and then I lost one of them
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So I've got one and not the other. If anyone's seen this missing boot
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I'd gladly have it back. Denim, cut off shorts. I see that Leandra actually of Man Repeller fame
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has started wearing again, black tights with jeans shorts over it. So I think we're okay to wear that again
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But I would like to say that that was a look that I was very fond of at the time
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This is to a CFDA thing. Again, like the boots are back, aren't they
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Never want to change a shoe. That was a vintage like Victorian dress, which I really liked
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I like that look, Louis Vuitton purse. Don't know what this is, that was outside of MTV
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I used to do a daily talk show called It's On With Alexa Chung
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I remember it well, you can see the terror in my eyes
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No, that's bad. This, also bad. Good items separately, but it's terrible together
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Vintage dress, acne jacket, Chanel boots, Marnie bag. The Alexa Mulberry bag
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Remember that? To clarify, I didn't design it, they just named it after me
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I like this look, it's shorts and a blazer and the Chanel boots again. Wow, I really loved an ankle boot
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and I really used to wear them until they died. I saw only Chanel boots, but I wore them
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to aforementioned Glastonbury. Now they're covered in mud since 2012 and I've not actually cleaned them
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Either, yeah, no regrets. Just this one's a bit pedestrian, but other than that, fine
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Mmm. Interessant. Jo, it's really funny that you bring this one up
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because this coat the other day, because I'm going through all my clothes and figuring out what to get rid of a lot
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and this coat is in there, and I'm kind of reluctant to get rid of it, but then at the same time
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when would I ever wear it again? It's a dragonfly leather Marc Jacobs coat
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and some Prada boots, and some really skinny jeans. Mm, womp. And these glasses, let's face it, just don't suit me
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That said, like, whatever. I don think it that bad a look This is great This is very therapeutic because now I know I will get rid of this coat Nice at the time but it a one stop shop isn it You don need I never gonna wear that again
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Oh, guys, I, this is great. The weekend before I had opened up both knees
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on Runyon Canyon, falling over, leaning into the fall to make everyone laugh
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and then I literally lost most of my skin. It was disgusting. This is Stella McCartney jumpsuit, still love it
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Celine glasses, boom. APC snake print bag, Marnie necklace, Castella espadrilles. It's great, I love it
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I've just been surfing as well, which has the little look on my face. It's like, I surf
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My boyfriend at the time could surf, took me out to Montauk, put me on a board
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and immediately regretted it. And here I am carrying my lamp home
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Cute from Future Perfect. I think that's cute. That's nice to put that much effort into a random Sunday
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Well done, moi. I mean, here I am with Carl at a Chanel fashion show
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It was the one with the icebergs. That's why I've got my camera in my hand, which is a contacts before Kendall would use one
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Hashtag 35 mil. Yeah, I'm wearing cycling shorts with tights underneath them
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And I don't want to tell you that is great. And there was a minute when I regretted that look
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but now I'm very happy with it. I really like it. I mean, the hair's a bit too layered
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but I love that look, it's great. Nothing to report there, just like, sick
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I definitely wear that now. I remember I was always so scared to go and meet designers after the show
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because I can't tell whether they would want to see you or not. But he was actually always nice, and he'd always like hold you
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and whisper things to you about other people. He was so clever and lovely
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I know he has a reputation in the press as being like, oh, obviously he's iconic and all the stuff
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that comes with him, but I only ever found him to be delightful, very warm, and just like
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would just tell you it's okay. So that was really nice. Oh
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You guys! This is so bad. But sweet. It's so bad
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It's so bad. Okay, I am at a festival in London called Wireless
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I couldn't afford Chanel, so I'm wearing a rip-off Chanel bag, a musical necklace, we don't know why
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I like music guys and rock and roll, yeah, just with the band, we get it
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American converse, because I loved America. I haven lived there yet And a dress I mean Lord knows where she dragged that one up from and a long locket whatever it was like 2007 not that bad it just my hair so bad I should never have long hair I shouldn
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even have this length hair I know it looks bad on me Ray-Bans sweater in case I get cold just cute
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it's 2007 it's like I was having the time of my life I did not have time to worry about clothes
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I was just ripping around London, having the best time. It was, New Rave was back
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I was dating like three different dudes. Ah, it was fantastic. I'm too old to wear this now
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I think I was too old to wear it then, so no. Oh
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This is the first ever thing I ever went to where there were photographers there
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that bothered to take a picture of me, ever. It's my mum's Louis Vuitton handbag
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which I thought was like fancy. Some Topshop shoes, and I don't know where that dress is from
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but I did my own hair, and I think it's really cute. Hello
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So I'm guest editing a page. I don't know what year this is from, but we'll say around the 2010s
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My Madewell collection's obviously out, because I've placed it here and here
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Madewell was the first company I worked with who let me design a collection
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And I remember creating these pajamas and I was like, I wanna make palm tree pajamas
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And they were like, we're not sure, but they added them to collection. And then the next season Louis Vuitton showed
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and put pajamas in their collection. And then coincidentally, it all came out at the same time
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So it was great. Charles Anastas was one of my favorite designers, still is, he's fantastic
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This is great, Hydroflora Declayor, fantastic product. Burberry coat, when Christopher was still designing
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Wolf ring. Oh my God, I literally say rock on. So embarrassing
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Rock on. Chanel, she's a beauty ambassador. Santel, only just stopped wearing that
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Yeah, sick, no regrets. No recollets. That's a sign. Favorite look. I wore these cycling shorts and I was like
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I'm gonna set a cycling short trend and then everyone was like, ew
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But you know, here we are 10 years later and suddenly we're back into it
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This is very much early athleisure. I would wear that one again
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and it would make a lot more sense now, but at the time, people were confused
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It was like a boxy menswear jacket. People were confused, but now it makes sense
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Thank God. There you go, that was would you wear it? And I guess the answer, even though I thought
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was gonna be yeah, was actually sometimes no. What a lovely time
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Do you know what, I still own most of those clothes. It's reminding me that I genuinely need to
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sort of palm some off on some people. Thank you
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