Alexa Chung: Inside My CHANEL Handbag

And at this point, I, like, pull out a cat

and really freak you out like,

This was Misty. [chuckles]

I had her stuffed. [laughs]

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Hi, British Vogue,

it's your friend, Alexa Chung,

and I'm gonna show you what's in my bag.

To start with, obviously, a mobile phone.

This one has a really disgusting phone cover on it

that I got in Venice.

It's the least beautiful tackiest thing

one can buy in Venice, but it just felt right.

The New Yorker that keeps me connected to New York

which is a city I used to live in.

And I like reading the restaurant reviews

and it's just good brain fodder really, isn't it?

Sunglasses for those incognito moments.

I'm renovating a house at the moment,

so quite often, I've got scraps of fabric

or paint samples in my bag.

This one is from Chelsea Textiles.

It's very, very beautiful.

It's also very, very expensive,

so I like to carry it around, stroke it,

think about it, and basically not action it.

A pair of very old-timey headphones.

I love music.

No, I do. I love music.

Currently, I'm listening to Adam Green.

I went to the British Museum.

This is very show and tell.

They had a thing about Stonehenge,

so I picked up this postcard of a Nebra sky disc.

I thought it was actually,

probably quite a good face of a watch, which I guess it is.

It's like a very ancient face of a watch.

This is the fragrance I'm wearing at the moment,

that my friend Christopher Niquet designed

with Regime des Fleurs,

and it's called, get on this name,

it's the best name of anything ever,

Rock River Melody. [sighs]

How good is that?

It smells like a smokey-ish bar,

but it also smells like opulent.

I'm obsessed with moisturizing.

There is not a better moisturizer on the planet

than Augustinus Bader's The Cream.

This is not a spon. [laughs]

Notepad.

I'm, like, very archaic, I'm not a modern tech gal.

I think to commit things to memory,

I really need to write them down.

I sometimes tell people I have a photographic memory

and sometimes I believe that to be true

but it might be a lie.

I tried to draw Derek Blasberg's children. [chuckles]

Nurofen.

This is obviously for headaches and period pain

'cause I have endometriosis,

and if you've never heard of it, you should Google it.

It's fun, you'll like it.

A pony clip.

This is a hair accessory.

When I'm looking through handbags,

often I find bits of jewelry, or rings,

or whatever that I've lost.

Horse clip is one of those.

I am very careless with my belongings.

Don't give me anything valuable, I will lose it.

My eyebrow gel, it's from Boots.

It's really cheap.

It's actually see-through mascara

but I use it for my eyebrows.

It keeps them, tsk, up so you can look constantly surprised.

Pencil case.

I love this shop.

It's called Choosing Keeping stationary shop.

They have just the nicest pens.

Code8 AM/PM lip balm.

No one needs a chapped lip.

In addition to this, I would say a face mask.

This one was made for me by Christian Siriano

who made my dress for the Met Gala,

and it's out of the same fabric,

so it's, like, the ultimate luxury experience

to have it on your face.

This might be the best thing.

Altitude Oil by de Mamiel,

and you can rub it on your pressure points,

[sighs] and you breathe it in.

It's really calming and nice.

So if you're maybe scared to fly

or you've got a big meeting, you can do this. [inhales]

And they'll be like,

Alexa? Sorry, are you sniffing your wrists?

Here's a lipstick.

Not the most charming name.

It's called A1.

It's a peachy lipstick.

I don't stray far from the classics.

I like a salmony, like, a salmony mouth, looks-wise.

This will annoy a certain kind of section of society.

It's my Contax T2.

I would like to say that I have had this since about 2009.

I've been a big fan of shooting a 35 mil

even before Instagram.

[keys rattling]

These are my keys.

And not to get meta, but my key ring is a small Chanel bag.

Okay, we're coming up the home straights, guys.

Oh, there's a bag within the bag, within the bag.

It's like a Russian doll.

Contact lenses.

I can't see well,

and the bane of my existence is a panic

about running out of contact lenses.

It drives me bananas.

Jewelry box, rings that look like they're for children.

This older lady who I thought was very beautiful was like,

The thing is the older you get,

the more big jewels you sort of need around the face

to bring the light back in.

And I was like, Noted.

I just keep it stashed in case I wake up ravaged by time.

This is a necklace that my friend made me.

They call me Jonathan Flowers

and they made me a Jonathan Flowers necklace.

And if you really think about it,

I do look like I should be called Jonathan Flowers.

If I could carry someone around in my bag,

I might carry like Nicholas Braun from Succession,

being like, No, oh, God.

What are you gonna do?

I don't know.

I'd be like, Shut up, Nicholas.

We're just getting a sandwich, man.

Thank you very much for watching.

I'm Alexa Chung.

That was what was in my bag.

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