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Sophie WangFebruary 14, 2026 at 2:54 AM

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The Good Buy is a podcast from Harper’s Bazaar in which editors Leah Chernikoff and Lynette Nylander invite celebrities, designers, models, and tastemakers to talk shop: what they buy, where they got it, and why it matters. Come down the fashion rabbit hole and take a peek inside the closets and shopping carts of the world’s most stylish people. Learn how they use style to tell their stories.

Modeling, on-air hosting, designing, writing, being a muse: Alexa Chung has done it all.

For over a decade, the multi-hyphenate It Girl has influenced a generation of women with her knack for high-low dressing (who else could pair Etro with muddy Hunter boots at Glastonbury?), her pattern-mixing expertise, and her enviable collection of vintage denim. Now, she joins The Good Buy to discuss the fashion muses and designers who she calls an inspiration.

From finding a ghost purse in the children’s department at Barnes and Noble to investing in a “B-line” Chloé skirt, nothing is off limits for Chung when it comes to sourcing her next purchase. And if she can’t find the exact piece she’s craving? She’ll just design it.

We caught up with the star to discuss everything from her first “big girl” purchase to why she’s against the concept of an It bag. Read on for highlights, and listen to the show in full here or watch it above.

On her style inspirations:

“Solange dresses incredibly well. Danielle Goldberg, the way she personally dresses and how she dresses everyone else such as Greta Lee? Phenomenal. I really like Olivia Dean and what she wore to the CFDAs. I just did a love/hate list and one of my hates was that pop stars always revert to wearing leotards for the big shows. It’s confusing to me. I’m not saying they don’t look good in them, but I don’t know why every single one of them has to wear one… I’m also a big fan of Addison Rae’s stage looks and Dara and what they’re up to.”

On how she puts together an outfit:

“It’s different each day, but sometimes it’s about problem solving. So if I’m like, ‘Okay, I’m getting the tube a lot today, so I’m going to have to wear a comfortable shoe,’ I’ll put something together. But it’s always about proportion and character. So I’ll think, ‘I want to feel like a fisherman from 1968 who’s potentially gonna go to a really fancy dinner that night.’ So it’s a tuxedo skirt and it’s a pair of overalls and it’s a Phoebe Philo shiny shoe and this bucket hat. Then those textures are all too dowdy, so I’m gonna wear a shiny black PVC Mac over it. So it’s kind of building a mixture of textures, proportion, and character.”

On how she fills the gaps in her wardrobe:

“There are always gaps in the wardrobe, that’s why I have an insatiable appetite for shopping, but it’s more that I’ll imagine what I want and if I can’t find it, that’s why I love design so much. I’m like, ‘I really want the dream fringe leather jacket’ and so then I get to make it. The thing I’m low on at the moment is skirts, because having spent a lot of my youth in ultra miniskirts, suddenly I’m very attracted to a knee-length number. I actually invested in one from Chloé the other day.”

On her style evolution:

“There was a bit of character play when I was younger. I understood at the time what it meant to be young, what you can and can’t get away with, and I do think a lot of vintage stuff you can carry better when you’re younger. At the time, I was shopping at Topshop and H&M and a lot of high street stores. I just would cut things up and rework them and whatever. Now I think I’m probably more mindful of what I’m buying and making sure that it is of quality and could last me longer. But the style in general then was a bit more DIY, a bit more smash and grab (great club, shoutout to Smash & Grab), but I was also playing the part of someone young. So I could dress like a granny then and it would be ironic, whereas now, if I put on the same thing, I would just look… a very proper woman.”

On It bags:

"I don't think people should feel like they must have something to be valuable or to feel good about themselves. Certainly I have a handbag that I love at the moment, and when I carry it, I feel like a million dollars and I love it, but I just feel like it's mean that you need a status symbol...I'm really fortunate that I have access to these handbags, but I can tell you for a fact that they don't fill a hole. I never will get to the point where I feel sated by what I consume. It's a trap, it's a trick; you don't need a posh bag to feel good. Just get a canvas bag and hope for the best."

Shop Alexa’s Good Buys

HER FIRST BUY:

“I modeled for a while when I was a teenager, and I saved up all my money and I bought a Mulberry Bayswater bag from Harrods and I felt really fancy… Everyone wanted the Roxanne, which was the other bag, but I felt like that was too heavy, so I got the Bayswater. And I loved it. I felt so posh and fancy and like I’d made it.”

Bayswater

$1695.00 at mulberry.com

HER REGRET BUY:

“I fell in love with this Prada skirt—it was a gray pleated skirt with a kind of dominatrix belt at the waist...Eventually that collection dropped into the stores. I went to Bond Street, I was looking around for this skirt, and I found another version which is lower-waisted with a belt lower down. I said, ‘Is the other one gonna come in?’ And [the salesman] was like, ‘No, they didn’t produce that.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, gutting.’ I was so fired up to buy this skirt, I bought the lower-waisted one for the same price. It was horribly expensive and it doesn’t suit me as well as the other one. And the next week, I walked past the Bond Street store and the other had dropped in.”

Belted Pleated Midi Skirt

$4800.00 at farfetch.com

HER REPEAT BUY:

“Vintage jeans, a vintage 501. But not all vintage jeans are created equal because different people have lived in them, but that’s the beauty of them. So I’ll never tire of trying to find that. And then also navy-blue jumpers. I just buy them over and over again in different forms and I still haven’t found the perfect one.”

Corsaire Sweater

$480.00 at agnesb.com

HER DREAM BUY:

“I have a sort of sick fantasy about owning a Cartier watch. The Baignoire. I know nothing about watches but I know that it’s a whole scene and I can’t wait—I’m still not old enough to grow into that scene. I want that watch but I don’t know what it means.”

Baignoire Watch

$7.50 at cartier.com

HER MOST RECENT GOOD BUY:

“Do you know that brand Jude Shoes? Very Prada coded. I bought some white stilettos from Jude and they’re gorgeous.”

Fame Pump in White Brushed Leather

$630.00 at thejude.com

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