© Establishment Casting
Anita Bitton is the casting and creative director for the Establishment, a prominent casting and branding agency with a worldwide client base located in the heart of New York’s Soho has a worldwide client base. Anita has picked the faces for a number of the world’s great photographers, including Irving Penn, Miles Aldridge, Nathaniel Goldberg, and the late Richard Avedon to name but a few, as well as designers Alexander Wang, Viktor & Rolf, Hussein Chalayan, and DKNY. Her experience is tenfold and all have relied on her eye. Girl Crush gives us an insight into her latest love…
Alexa Chung
Born: 1984
Location: Hampshire, England
Stats: Green eyes; a quarter Chinese
With legs up to her armpits, a boyish charm, and an exotic disarming beauty, Alexa Chung will sidetrack you with her quick wit and repartee. With style that catapulted her right into Vogue’s Top 10 Best-Dressed List and straight into the realms of the young and the beautiful with friends to match: Daisy Lowe, Alice Dellal, Pixie Geldof—all alarmingly young and ridiculously gorgeous. Alexa Chung was awarded Best TV Presenter at the British Elle Style Awards (which she also hosted back in February) and will pick up Best TV Presenter Award from British Glamour in June. Rumor has it she’s moving to New York and has a new stateside show. Everyone’s mum on the developments of this, so Alexa, clear the mantelpiece; I’m sure there are more awards to follow. Alexa has a successful column in the London Independent. A recent commission for British Vogue will appear in the July issue. Alexa will also be featured in the June issue of American Vogue. She’s smart and up for it, dating bona fide rock star Alex Turner from Brit band the Arctic Monkeys, keeps her personal life just that, and her schedule is one that would challenge the average status quo. She has had her dalliance with American designer DKNY this season, and has appeared on the cover of innumerable magazines. And since she’s been called “TV’s hottest property” by the London Independent, a “small-screen goddess” by The Times U.K., “London’s new darling” by German Vanity Fair, Alexa Chung is fixed to go international.
