The live show featured celebrity interviews and live music, but was cancelled in December In January , British brand Mulberry released its Alexa bag, frequently sported by stars including Olivia Palermo and Chung herself, and it became an instant sell-out. The satchel-style bag was reordered in a range of fabrications and colours and Mulberry credited it with a positive year's trading. Having written for the Independent from November to June , Chung was made a contributing editor of British Vogue in June I do wonder if my dedication to the channel had something to do with the sudden shift in some markers of my identity — the friends I saw, the nights out and the concerts I attended, things I defined myself by — being stripped away.
Look, even she had to cut her own hair in lockdown. None of us are immune. Thank goodness I have more time to practise. Who knows Internet Wormhole is a new column where Guardian Australia writers take you on a tour of their online obsession. I get called chicken legs a lot, that's the main one," she says. By people in the street? Well, no, it did do my head in a bit. It depends on the day. It's like being at school.
I didn't expect everyone to like me and they certainly didn't, so I don't see why it should differ just because I got older and started being on TV. Chung has had to develop a thicker skin of late. She went to New York last summer in a blaze of glory to present It's on With Alexa Chung , a daily show broadcast live from Times Square for MTV, but the series was cancelled after two series, partly because the slick American television executives did not quite understand Chung's quirky British predilection for saying exactly what she thought and partly because her irreverent humour was lost in translation.
She is not that keen on social networking sites. I hate feeling left out, so I'm obsessed with seeing what everyone else is up to," Chung admits, but then someone started making death threats on her Twitter page while she was in New York, which understandably put her off the whole thing.
For some reason, Chung seems to attract a ludicrous amount of bile on the internet. Partly, one imagines, it is because she is strikingly beautiful and yet simultaneously unafraid of expressing her own opinion, a combination that leaves her open to accusations of condescension even though, in person, she is extremely nice, warm and witty. How does her boyfriend react when people write horrible things about her on the internet? Born into "the most middle-class [background] you could imagine", Chung is one of four siblings and comes from the Hampshire village of Privett, where she was raised by her father, Phil, a retired graphic designer who is three-quarters Chinese, and her mother, Gill, a housewife.
She had a successful spell as a teenage model she was scouted three times before signing to Storm at the age of 16 and left school with three A-levels two As and a B and an offer to study English at King's College London, but was too busy to take it up.
Chung first burst on to our screens in as the sarcastic co-presenter of Channel 4's teen music show, Popworld. She once famously corrected the grammar of Brendon Urie, frontman of rock band Panic! At the Disco, mid-interview. Also, my friends Harley Viera-Newton and her husband Ross [Schwartzman] have been hosting a really good party every Saturday night called Homefriends , where Ross spins excellent tunes to dance to.
Plus, the founder, Sophia Chikovani, was wearing very chic Row boots, so I felt like she knew what was up. Read on the products Chung has been relying on lately, from her favorite serum to a bra for lounging around the house. I also love the David Mallett shampoos , which smell amazing and are very gentle. I like to be as slippery as possible. It really gets the skin clean without leaving it feeling too dry or stripped.
The packaging is serious and white and looks like a Celine shopping bag. It provides long-lasting hydration, but it has no fragrance.
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