My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years. Alexa Chung More Quotes by Alexa Chung More Quotes From Alexa Chung Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks. Alexa Chung everything-happens-for-a-reason reason sometimes Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me. Alexa Chung clothes fashion want I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen. Alexa Chung people looks way 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. Alexa Chung mean people thinking I'm terrified of being bored and not learning. Alexa Chung being-bored terrified bored 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. Alexa Chung effort home looks 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. Alexa Chung ex-boyfriend girl boys 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. Alexa Chung self-esteem past thinking I'm not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant. Alexa Chung pleasant hard nice Looking effortless takes a lot of effort. Alexa Chung effortless effort 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. Alexa Chung heartbroken glasses character Thank you, Jane Birkin, for providing me with infinite outfit ideas and the confidence to dress like a boy but act like a girl. Alexa Chung girl boys ideas 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. Alexa Chung kissing hair years 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. Alexa Chung french-woman style thinking I'm not preaching about things you should do, I'm not political or anything. I'm probably not the best role model. Alexa Chung role-models roles political 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. Alexa Chung strong clever mean I think the challenges that come with the responsibility of art directing something is something that appeals to me. Alexa Chung responsibility art thinking I do date quite small men. And one large man! Just one. Alexa Chung just-one small-man men As soon as that was kind of green-lit, it became very obvious to me what I wanted to do and it was an instinctive reaction to my relationship with how I wear my Ugg boots. Which is in London and in New York, I wear them as soon as I get in basically. Alexa Chung uggs london new-york I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together. Alexa Chung track together numbers
