Alexa Chung

The popular and trendy host of Fuse News discusses love, life and music, shares her fashion finds and describes what it is like to be a muse to designer icons Marc Jacobs and Karl Lagerfeld. 100,000 first printing.

With influences that range from Jane Birkin to Mick Jagger, Alexa Chung is a unique fashion icon. Her first book, It, provides her legion of fans with a long-awaited inside look at her world. A truly one-off collection of Alexa's personal writings, drawings and photographs, It covers everything from her thoughts on life, love and music to her favourite looks and how to decide what to wear in the morning. With wit, charm and a refreshingly down-to-earth attitude, this gorgeously designed full-colour book is a must-have for anyone who loves fashion, music and just about everything Alexa Chung.

sharkie

"I myself have an extensive collection of leather jackets, despite the fact that the only way I can tell them apart is by looking at the label sewn into the neck. And yet I will continue to buy them because, like many other items in my wardrobe, they are a perennial classic and I have a weird mental block every time I go shopping that means I forget what I already own the moment I cross the threshold into the store."

With influences that range from Jane Birkin to Mick Jagger, Alexa Chung is a unique fashion icon. Her first book, It, provides her legion of fans with a long-awaited inside look at her world. A truly one-off collection of Alexa's personal writings, drawings and photographs, It covers everything from her thoughts on life, love and music to her favourite looks and how to decide what to wear in the morning. With wit, charm and a refreshingly down-to-earth attitude, this gorgeously-designed full-colour book is a must-have for anyone who loves fashion, music and just about everything Alexa Chung.

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Gabriela Magana

I'm a huge fan of Alexa Chung, mostly based on her style and witty personality. Having said this I was largely disappointed by this book- It's pretty to look at but has very little editorial value. As much as I would like to believe Alexa has significant talent, this book shows little of it.

Haylie

As a biography (which this was labeled as such at the library), this book fails.
As a print out of a blog, this book is brilliant. Let me explain why:

If you don't know already, Alexa Chung was (still is?) an all-time IT Girl who peaked in the mid-late 2000s. She went from being a model to a TV co-host to being famous for dating a frontman, to being a TV Host of her own show on MTV, to being a fashion designer among other things. People who were in tune with fashion/music/etc. from across the pond during this period were kind of into her, especially young women (me, personally as a younger teen had a love-hate perspective of her since she was dating said frontman who I happened to ADORE). She was notorious for saying that she didn't care for blogs of any kind (in Tumblr heyday, mind you) and it kind of pissed off some of her die-hard fans (like the people who had blogs dedicated to her). I think it's so funny that her debut book is mostly a physical print out of a Tumblr blog - especially in the fact that she had felt so indifferent about at her peak.

She dives into who her fashion icons are - since Chung is known for her fashion sense this makes sense - and just like most on Tumblr, provides a blurb of how this affected her personally/personal style underneath or near a photo of a subject (i.e., Spice Girls, Diane Keaton, etc.) These texts are intertwined with more personal, long-form stories about adolescence, heartbreak, and how-tos or tips in relation to fashion. Then there are random doodles Chung drew along with photographs that she took of herself, her friends, random objects (on a film camera for the most part because OF COURSE). It reads as a blog would, and it was indeed an amusing trip down memory lane when I too was experiencing gawky growth in growing up, had an obsession with the Beatles and rock 'n roll from the 60's-70's, and the unwavering need to go to Glastonbury. Not to mention the fashion from that time - Chung and I both wore biker shorts and pantyhose for an "outfit." Thankfully, Karl Lagerfeld didn't witness my fashion atrocity. The same cannot be said for Chung.

Chung has a wit to her writing that I can appreciate in such a non-traditional book and I never felt she whined or got boring when she juggled different topics. I will admit that this would make a lovely coffee table book, but is no more than a fun, one-and-done read.

Beatriz

3.5 stars. I liked her writing and all the references but I wished this book was bigger or at least had some more depth (which happens when she mentions heartbreak).
It's a good book for a light reading and I think I may go looking through it again for inspiration and movies to watch.

Emily Delventhal-Sali

A quick read full of insights into fashion model Alexa Chung’s personal style. Small peeks into her childhood, aesthetically pleasing photographs (of and by Chung), and details about her biggest inspirations are sure to delight those with an interest in the world of fashion.
If you enjoy this book, I recommend Style by Kate Spade & What Would Audrey Do and Audrey Style by Pamela Keogh (and I’m sure there there are many others in a similar vein I’ve yet to discover)

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