Alexa Chung daunted by style icon label

Alexa Chung finds it "daunting" being called a style icon.

The model-and-TV presenter was given the Style Icon prize at the British Fashion Awards last year and while she admits it's very flattering, she says there's now a lot of pressure on her to always look good.

She said: "It might be premature. I always think of icons as women from previous decades who demonstrated a finesse in the fashion industry for many years and accumulated the praise gradually, whereas that seems to be a label that was stuck on me overnight. It's incredibly flattering but also quite daunting."

Alexa has become very popular in the fashion world and stuck up for US Vogue editor Anna Wintour, saying she doesn't deserve her "cut-throat" reputation.

Alexa told the Metro newspaper: "She's amazing. I feel like her reputation comes from the fact she's a woman and she's incredibly successful so people like to speculate about whether she's cut-throat and mean, when she's actually not. She's a really smart businesswoman just getting her job done."