Alexa Chung has already tried her hand at design before for
a very successful Madewell collaboration and this year she designed her own
capsule beauty collection for Eyeko. Now, the model and tv host is hoping to
try her hand at fashion design full time and she thinks 2014 is the year to
launch her own label. Alexa is leaving her job at Fuse News which will mean she’ll
have some spare time in her life to focus on something new. She reveals that
she hopes she can thus finally focus on fashion design more seriously. She
commented in a new interview:
“I was at
Fuse News for a year and a half and I’m leaving there on Thursday. That’s going
to be the first opportunity where I haven’t had a nine-to-five job — so I’ve
kind of been doing Eyeko, I wrote a book, I did Fuse every
day, and various other design gigs and DJing. So this will be the first time to
actually sort of sit down and think about it. So… no. (laughs) I’m going to get
it off the ground hopefully in 2014.”
Alexa jokes
that she probably won’t feature anything cat related because it’s overdone at
this point: “Hmm… I feel like Miu Miu’s done it,
Tabitha Simmons has done
it, Charlotte Olympia…
Maybe it’s time to give cats a rest.” Commenting on Miley Cyrus and her risky
fashion choices including thong leotards, Alexa says she feels anxious that a
wardrobe malfunction is on the horizon: “It’s like a will it/won’t it
situation, I’m on the edge of my seat every time I watch her spread her legs!
I’m like ‘Ooh! Ooh!’ It’s too much for my anxiety.”
Check out a
look back at some of Alexa’s stylish looks below and begin guessing what we’ll
see in her fashion line when it launches!
