Want to Look Like an It Girl? Wear These 7 Fashion Trends

At a Parisian party celebrating her latest Reformation collection, Irish style writer and tastemaker Verona Farrell asked Alexa Chung the perennial question: what makes an It girl? As someone who has benefited from being the poster child of this moniker for two decades, even going so far as to pen a book on the topic, the British model and fashion muse delivered a surprising response. “It girls have really good stamina,” Chung divulged. “It’s actually really quite a lot if you’re an It girl. You have to be at everything, you have to be nice to everyone and you have to be fucking funny.”

That certain ineffable quality is difficult to articulate. However, one of the attributes that often goes unsaid is their ability to dress impeccably well. Immune to trends and entirely individualistic, an It girl wields attention and magnetism through what she wears, especially if it’s a little off-kilter. Take Mary-Kate Olsen’s collection of beat-up Hermès Birkins, for instance. At the time, her decision to carry her designer bag to the point of total destruction was viewed as completely contradictory to what pristine, luxury fashion should look like. But decades later, the concept of wearing in your high-end pieces is entirely conventional.