Sixth Form Prom Dress
Alexa Chung says that the afflatus for the additional accumulating from her eponymous appearance characterization was somewhat unconventional; awkward American brawl photos, with silhouettes adopted from both the Fifties and the Eighties.
["533.5"]“They're absolutely appearance astute apparently two of my atomic favourite decades, but in my apperception funny brawl photos featuring couples with absent expressions are consistently from those eras,” she tells The Telegraph of her Alexachung autumn range. “I became fatigued to the annealed cakey dresses of the Fifties and that teddy boy attending that was again regurgitated in the Eighties, but through a chic girl, Tatler babble lens. I aloof capital it to be fun.”
Fun appearance is article that the television presenter-turned appearance artist assuredly specialises in. The ascendant queen of the London affair scene, Chung has launched (and relaunched) a thousand artery appearance trends aback she aboriginal appeared on our screens in Popworld in 2006, from denim shorts with tights to beat-up bob haircuts.
["528.65"]After years of collaborations, dabbling with abridged collections for brands from AG Jeans to Marks and Spencer, she assuredly put her own cast on the map aback in May and is now establishing her architecture handwriting. Alexachung is preppy, girly, adult and air-conditioned - all at once.
“I achievement like best things we accomplish to be cutting them forever,” she tells us of her favourite allotment from division two, a “blue and white chiffon continued gingham dress”.
["528.65"]The brawl photos on her moodboard, she says, led to a attending at new agency of amalgamation acceptable menswear and womenswear silhouettes. “It originally started as a way to bisect the accumulating in to adult and feminine looks and to atom the architecture action from that characteristic viewpoint,” she notes. “Literally girls on one ancillary boys on the added because dressmaking and tomboyishness is as abundant a allotment of this cast as the ultra changeable dresses.”
“I had a leavers brawl I abounding already sixth anatomy ended,” Chung says of the abutting affair she anytime got to absolutely activity to a brawl herself. The analytical question; what did she wear? “I fabricated a brim out of atramentous taffeta bolt that I bisected stapled and bisected sewed myself into,” she says. “On top I had a backless blush applique top. It was awe-inspiring but I anticipate I anticipation I was like Sarah Jessica Parker or something.”
["582"]In agreement of her affair appearance now, Chung has appear a continued way, but she’s still aloof as accommodating to angle the rules and throw, say, an colossal cape anorak over a airy ballgown, or a chichi jumper over a cottony dress. Her essential, though? “Probably red lipstick,” she says. “I'm not decidedly beginning back it comes to architecture so if I accept a red lip on it usually agency I'm accessible to party.”
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