FASHION IN FINSBURY PARK: How does Alexa Chung decompress after London Vogue Week? An evening on the chippy in her Barbour, in fact.
On Tuesday night, she invited a clutch of her pals — Sienna Miller, Oli Inexperienced, Tom Sturridge, Georgiana Huddart and Alexis Taylor from the band Scorching Chip — to Tollington’s Fish Bar in Finsbury Park to toast her new assortment that she codesigned with Barbour.
Chung, recent off strolling within the Simone Rocha fall 2025 present on Sunday, wore a slipdress from the model with a stripy crimson, black and inexperienced knit tied neatly round her shoulders that she mentioned reminded her of 3D glasses on the cinema.
Alexa Chung took over Tollington’s in Finsbury Park with Barbour.
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Her Barbour of selection for the evening was a protracted crimson wax jacket named Lizzie after her greatest good friend.
Chung has been synonymous with Barbour for greater than a decade now — carrying her jackets for horseback driving — within the rain — when she was a child, shrugging them over her denim cutoffs at festivals and zipping a bunch of them collectively, at Glastonbury, to make an enormous sleeping bag along with her pals.
What retains her coming again for extra with the 131-year-old model?
Inside Alexa Chung’s dinner at Tollington’s in Finsbury Park.
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“They’ve such inflexible design codes. When anybody thinks of a Barbour of their head, they know precisely what it appears like and for me, that’s one thing to right away insurgent in opposition to. There’s a lot risk to play and discover new tales inside their realm — like taking a Bedale jacket and portray it crimson,” Chung mentioned.
Company who arrived of their Barbour jackets dismissed the indecisive British climate outdoors and dug into the hearty and lightweight menu that the staff at Tollington’s ready.
Negronis and martinis had been served upon entry with anchovies, crisps and marinated peppers earlier than transferring onto crimson or white wine within the eating room, the place the menu featured a complete seabass, brill, battered prawns, Andalusian chickpeas, chips bravas and winter tomatoes.
Sisters Georgiana and Flora Huddart
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The spring elements had been the prelude to sunnier days to come back.
Chung mentioned her favourite a part of the season is Easter, the place she will get to partake in an Easter egg hunt along with her nieces and nephews.
“I don’t have many spring traditions apart from to possibly swap my wardrobe round — placing extra heavy stuff away after which try to catch moths with my arms and smash them in opposition to partitions,” she mentioned jokingly.
