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"    Photo: Getty Images    Last night, Alexa Chung f\u00EAted her Maje 2012 campaign, shot by Glen Luchford, at the H\u00F4tel Americano in NYC.  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been looking at photographs of Alexa Chung for many, many years,&amp;quot; says designer Judith Milgrom, the head of the Paris-based contemporary label Maje. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve always thought she has a special, almost magical touch with how she puts her look together. I love her personality; it&amp;#039;s tough but delicate, young but wise, feminine but strong\u2026I think [Maje] and the new collection is about that, too.&amp;quot; ELLE.com spoke with the fashion muse, model, TV presenter, and sometime designer about working with Maje, public transportation, and predicting the future.     ELLE: You shot this campaign in an empty Paris Metro station. How did it feel being in such a public, busy place when it&amp;#039;s closed and completely silent?  Alexa Chung: Well first of all, we were there pretty damn early. I don&amp;#039;t know how early because, to be honest with you, I blocked it out. I had flown in from New York the night before, and so my head was already a little foggy. Then I show up at the Metro station and we were the only people down there. For a big part of the shoot, I sat inside a subway car all alone. It was so beautiful but also a little creepy. ELLE: In your Maje campaign, you carry a white dove onto the Paris Metro. Is that the strangest thing you&amp;#039;ve ever seen on public transportation?  AC: That bird was weird, right? But not as weird as when people eat on subways. Like, you couldn&amp;#039;t eat your fries at McDonald&amp;#039;s, you had to eat them on the subway? Then this week, I saw a guy who was holding his shoes and just wearing socks and I thought that was crazy. Oh and then yesterday, this girl got mad at me because my coat was touching hers. I was like, &amp;quot;Whoa, relax!&amp;quot;  ELLE: Since you were cast partly because of your own personal style, did you pick out your own looks for the campaign?  AC: Actually, Camille Bidault-Waddington was on-set as the stylist. I love her. And I walked into my trailer to get dressed, and she goes, &amp;quot;Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we know what Alexa Chung is\u2014knee socks, miniskirts, peacoats, whatever. We get it. Let&amp;#039;s try to move on\u2026&amp;quot; But okay, I did steal a green suede miniskirt from the collection!  ELLE: One of your Madewell collections had an evening pajama suit a year before Phoebe Philo did her own luxe PJs at Celine. Are you a fashion psychic?  AC: We did long skirts, too. And then they were on everyone&amp;#039;s runways!  ELLE: So what&amp;#039;s next?  AC: What is next? What can we wear next? I worry all the time that I&amp;#039;m going to run out of ideas, you know? I always tell my mom my fashion ideas, because I know she&amp;#039;ll remember them. And last summer, I told my mom, &amp;quot;Mermaids are going to become a big thing. And then Karl [Lagerfeld] did that whole Chanel mermaid collection. Then a few months ago, I said, &amp;quot;Mom, everyone&amp;#039;s going to look like race car drivers.&amp;quot; And I saw the new Louis Vuitton collection, and I thought, &amp;quot;All those checks look like race car flags. This is so [messed] up!&amp;quot;  ELLE: That&amp;#039;s your next move\u2014style oracle.  AC: I know, right? [Dropping her voice low.] &amp;quot;Ladies and gentlemen! It&amp;#039;s time for Fashion Psychic with Alexa Chung!&amp;quot; [Laughing.] Wait. You know I&amp;#039;m joking, right?    "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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