Scrabbling in Mud With Alexa Chung

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What does Alexa Chung do with all the free stuff she gets sent? "I get sent a fair amount of stuff—but it's not all things that I'd have chosen," she tells the November issue of UK Elle. "It makes you question your own taste sometimes. Do I even like this? My house is tiny and I can't fit things in. So if my mum or my friends don't want it, I send it back or give it to a charity shop. It's worrying to think how much those things are worth. When you get it for free it's like, 'Oh, this thing,' and then you see it in a magazine and fucking hell, it's £2,000! Meanwhile you've been scrabbling around in festival mud in it." [Elle UK]