Alexa Chung

“Often, I do translatlantic overnight flights from New York, and when I land, I have to do my eyes - I feel weird without it.”

“Every day, I think of designs, but I don't write them down, and I forget. If only I had an office.”

“London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer to the process, to street style, to a sense of humour.”

“When I'm wearing makeup, I choose between doing my eyes or mouth because I don't want to look like a beauty pageant child.”

“Everything doesn't have to be perfect, I've realised. You can learn as you go.”

“I'm always hairy. I swear too much.”

“I went out with a 40-year-old when I was 19, and since then, I don't really think much about numbers meaning anything. But I do feel like maybe I've neglected to work on developing emotionally and taking care of myself.”

“You know you've become a brat when you have a room you like at the Bristol in Paris.”

“I grew up in a miniature village in the middle of the countryside in England, quite secluded from the outside world. I was always enamored by the fashion industry.”

“I always write 'Magic Potion' on my perfume bottles so when I use them, it feels magical - I make spells in the morning when I put them on.”

“It was once people began taking my picture every time I left the house - because it's an easy fashion shot - that I started getting a bit weirder about going out without any makeup on, and I think that's when I started wearing foundation every day.”

“I don't want to say, 'Yeah, I changed at 30,' because no, it was chronically the same. But I got more relaxed about things.”

“I tend to splurge on fancy dresses because I always think I'll get a lot of wear out of them, but it's false logic. You should really spend more money on the things you wear every day, like jeans.”

“If my boyfriend finds me sexy, then I don't need that kind of male attention from anyone else.”

“I feel like some women do get away with doing these sexy shoots and looking like they're being really empowered. For me, I'd feel really uncomfortable in that situation and a bit like I was being taken advantage of.”

“My image has swallowed me up! I've given so much out to this projected version of myself, but now I have to live up to this character that I don't even associate half the time.”

“I'm just really good at dressing my body's proportions.”

“I play guitar a bit. I'm trying to learn drums - I feel like I can play violin. I've never tried, but I just feel like I can.”

“I don't think love should make you feel uneasy. When you feel sick, I don't think that's love - that's infatuation.”

“At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be, and I said 'fashion journalist,' so writing for 'Vogue' has provided me with the opportunity to fulfill a dream.”