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Over the years, there are several things that make a person more determined it Status: Advanced copy received new yorker Because you were on Tina Brown’s “hit list,” photographed by Cobrasnake, sat on the Marc Jacobs Heaven couch, and appeared in a Charli xcx music video. The video for the new song “SS26” released tonight is no exception, directed by TORSO (the duo consisting of Miodrag Manojlović and Lukas von Haller).
The singer first set the tone for her Who’s Who squad boy Her 2024 music video “360” signals a coming of age. Office Siren’s stylish casting filled the city’s bingo cards, including the likes of Gabrielette, Alex Consani, Rachel Sennott, Richie Shazam and Julia Fox, who belted out in the lyrics, “I’m everywhere, I’m Julia.” Her star power continued with her performance at the 2025 Grammy Awards, which turned into an all-out stage bash.
Yet while “360” represents the power list of the internet’s It girls of our time, Charli xcx’s “SS26,” staged as a fashion show, is a true “blink-and-you’ll-miss-it”, “if you know you know it” effort. There are famous public faces like iconic fashion editor Carine Roitfeld, supermodel Debra Shaw and Saint Laurent’s Anthony Vaccarello (Charli xcx was just named YSL Beauty Ambassador), but there are also industry influencers like PR giant Lucien Pagès and legendary sound producer Michel Gaubert and his partner Ryan Aguilar. (You can thank Gaubert for the soundtrack to Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel runway.) There are also some of xcx’s favorite independent designers, such as Benjamin Barron and Bror August Vestbø of August Barron (plus their own publicist David Siwicki).
Other faces in the show’s “audience” and backstage staff include: Abraham Ortuño Perez, founder and creative director of Abra; model Sevar; Dan Sablon, creative director of Zadig & Voltaire; model and director Farida Khelfa; Ching; and filmmaker Luik Prigent. Think of “SS26” as a partial directory of fashion industry insiders.
