Personal Style With Lucinda Chambers, Amanda Harlech and Alexa Chung - Fashion Dress in The Present
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Personal Style With Lucinda Chambers, Amanda Harlech and Alexa Chung

 
 Vogue's Lucinda Chambers // Photos by Darren Gerrish 

Have you ever heard of quite such a stylish line up?!

Vogue UK's fashion director (and immense personal style crush of mine) Lucinda Chambers, Amanda Harlech, long time Chanel collaborator and muse, and Alexa Chung, British fashion icon and much much copied It girl.

Ugh, I was getting giddy with excitement just thinking about what this trio would discuss on the subject of personal style at this weekend's Vogue Festival. 


L-R: Lucinda Chambers, Amanda Harlech, Alexa Chung and compère Lisa Armstrong



Read on for the low down on what did happen amongst this melting pot of style minds…

First up, what did they all wear? 

For Lucinda it was a mix of designer, high street and vintage. Her textured coat which fashion friends “thought was Celine” was in fact a charity shop find for £20, her skirt though was, yes, Celine “an investment” and her white shirt was from the high street which Lucinda had customised by fraying the cuffs “I love double sided sticky tape!”

For Amanda day time dressing meant Chanel couture from top to toe. Amanda looked breath takingly elegant and at ease, testament to the fact that this lady owns it.  

Alexa wore Marc Jacobs, and looked both ladylike and perfectly dishevelled as ever. 

Listening to Lucinda, Amanda and Alexa discuss style captivated myself and the audience. The three of them, despite their polar styles agreed that what truly makes someone stylish is a comfort within themselves, and experimentation with clothes until you find a ‘uniform’ as Alexa called it, which you are happy to fall back on day in day out. Lucinda spoke of how being able to express oneself requires us first to understand what our 'self' is. Therefore, in Lucinda's books, everyone should make mistakes and get to know themselves. Lucinda then told us of a 'lilac phase' she had, which taught her the lesson that lilac was indeed not for her. 

Alexa regaled us with tales of her battles with US TV producers ahead of her show It’s On With Alexa Chung. Not only did Alexa specify within her contract that she would have total control over her own styling and image - which you’ll be happy to hear remained authentically Alexa with ‘Kurt Cobain hair and denim overalls'; but when it came to the meeting which Alexa knew would spell the end of her show (which was cancelled after one season) she pulled out all sartorial stops thinking “these men are going to have to look a woman in the eye and say we are canceling your show” cue a pencil skirt, heels and blouse. Indeed Alexa went on to expand that when dressing she thinks of:

“ How I feel
How I want to feel
How I want others to feel about me” 

The rules to power dressing peeps. 

All three women spoke of times when they experimented with their style, Amanda in a gingham two piece as a young girl, Lucinda in a home-made petticoat as a secretary at Vogue. 

As Lucinda said, you have to “try try try everything! Do not lose your bottle.”

Amanda reinforced this notion of style bravery “you cannot care what other people think”

All women agreed that style is the opposite of fashion, it is about dissimilating trends so that you may incorporate what is right for you into your wardrobe. 

One of my favourite quotes from the whole day was from Lucinda, who said that “style is the first thing someone will notice about you after your smile.” 

I have to admit that I flit between feeling totally comfortable with my style, to weeks of being in a rut. Perhaps it is as these ladies suggest a case of trying everything, learning what suits us and sticking to what we feel best in. They all agreed on culling our wardrobes - this will definitely be the next stop for me. 

How do you guys feels about personal style? What is your day to day uniform? I want to hear it all!

Love, 

MB x

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