In the mother of all unsurprising tales, Alexa Chung, A.K.A. style icon to most human women, has revealed that her trend-setter days date back as far as school. What a shocker.
In an interview with ELLE US, the sartorially-unchallenged Chung details that when she moved into secondary school, the year 11 girls were already looking to her for style cues. The Brit explained, ‘Not to blow my own trumpet, but by the time I was eleven, the girls at school who were fifteen and sixteen were buying the coat I had.’
However, her gift for being fashionable came at a price - merciless p*ss-taking, ‘Of course, they’d tease me first. It would be like a solid month of "Alexa, why do you have a record bag? Alexa, why did you cut all your hair off? Alexa, what are those funny loafers?" And a month later, they’d all be wearing it, too.’
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This trend came to its zenith when even her teacher was inspired by the pre-pubescent influencer, ‘The worst was when a teacher copied me. She bought the fuzzy coat and big glasses I wore. I took a lot of shit for that…But I was not the middle-aged woman buying stuff because of a 13-year-old! Why weren’t they taking the piss out of her?!’
And if you want to know the Chung-specific bullying names, she went ahead and told everyone, 'when I went to school and people were like, "You look like Olive Oil from the Popeye cartoons!" I would just say, "Yeah, I know. Next?”'
You go girl.
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Daisy Murray is the Digital Fashion Editor at ELLE UK, spotlighting emerging designers, sustainable shopping, and celebrity style. Since joining in 2016 as an editorial intern, Daisy has run the gamut of fashion journalism - interviewing Molly Goddard backstage at London Fashion Week, investigating the power of androgynous dressing and celebrating the joys of vintage shopping.
