YSL jacket and scarf, Diesel skirt and shoes, David Yurman earrings.
Charli XCX: Photos From the Billboard Women In Music Shoot
Written by djfrosty on March 1, 2024
My big struggle is deciding whether I care more about being the biggest artist I can be commercially or being critically sound,” Charli XCX says. “Then sometimes I land in this place of not caring about either of those things.”
For most of her decade-plus career as both a songwriter for other pop stars (Gwen Stefani, Camila Cabello, Selena Gomez) and a beloved solo performer herself, Charli has managed to strike an enviable balance between the two pop poles she has just described. The 31-year-old British artist has made inescapable hits like her 2014 Iggy Azalea collaboration, “Fancy,” which spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and more sonically experimental pop — including her celebrated pairings with SOPHIE, with whom Charli pioneered hyperpop — while establishing herself as a tastemaker with a track record for working with cutting-edge artists like Yaeji, Rina Sawayama and Caroline Polachek before the industry fully catches on.
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Acne shirt, MM6 bra, Beaufille belt, Abra pants, YSL shoes.
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Beaufille jacket and skirt, Abra shoes.
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YSL jacket and scarf, David Yurman earrings.
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Acne shirt, Beaufille belt, Abra pants.
Styling by Chris Horan. Hair by Fitch Lunar at Opus Beauty. Makeup by Alexandra French at Forward Artists. Set Design by Elise Jonke.