ALEXA CHUNG says that working on her upcoming book has been no easy process, but that it's starting to gather momentum now.
"It's good - it's really fun!I had a meeting with them [her publishers] this morning actually.It was a struggle before as I'm so visual - that's how I learn and imagine things.So when I was sending writing to them it was hard as I couldn't envisage it at all," she told us."But then they sent me the proofs of how it will be laid out and we're deciding where to put images and stuff.I literally have cut-outs of pictures I've taken and I get to be like:'That one goes there'.It's one of my favourite things to do."
When the book was first announced last year there was some initial confusion around whether or not it would be a style guide or a scrapbook-style tome, but Chung admits that this may have been her own fault.
"It's because I didn't know what I was doing!That's the problem when people release it to press before you've written a word," she confided."I'm writing, I'm drawing and I'm taking photographs.It's definitely not an autobiography, but it's me writing so in a way it probably will have that element."
And whilst Chung's drawing isn't currently the skill she's best known for, it seems her book might change that.
"Drawing is probably the main, number one thing I can do - that I'm best at," she revealed."It makes sense, if I can get dressed well then that's what I'm good at: visuals.Putting things next to things,"
The as-yet-untitled book is expected to be released later this year by Penguin Books.
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