FASHION IN FINSBURY PARK: How does Alexa Chung decompress after London Trend Week? An evening on the chippy in her Barbour, in fact.
On Tuesday night, she invited a clutch of her associates — Sienna Miller, Oli Inexperienced, Tom Sturridge, Georgiana Huddart and Alexis Taylor from the band Sizzling Chip — to Tollington’s Fish Bar in Finsbury Park to toast her new assortment that she codesigned with Barbour.
Chung, contemporary off strolling within the Simone Rocha fall 2025 present on Sunday, wore a slipdress from the model with a stripy purple, 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 night time was an extended purple wax jacket named Lizzie after her greatest buddy.
Chung has been synonymous with Barbour for greater than a decade now — carrying her jackets for horseback using — 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 together with her associates.
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 to be like like and for me, that’s one thing to right away insurgent towards. There’s a lot chance to play and discover new tales inside their realm — like taking a Bedale jacket and portray it purple,” Chung mentioned.
Friends who arrived of their Barbour jackets disregarded the indecisive British climate exterior and dug into the hearty and light-weight menu that the staff at Tollington’s ready.
Negronis and martinis have been served upon entry with anchovies, crisps and marinated peppers earlier than shifting onto purple 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 have been the prelude to sunnier days to return.
Chung mentioned her favourite a part of the season is Easter, the place she will get to partake in an Easter egg hunt together with her nieces and nephews.
“I don’t have many spring traditions aside from to perhaps swap my wardrobe round — placing extra heavy stuff away after which try to catch moths with my arms and smash them towards partitions,” she mentioned jokingly.
