I like that you don’t put her in any sort of movie or character cosplay, because she’s not actually in the movie, and it wouldn’t make sense for her. What are things you lean into, and what do you avoid?
I mean, this is a controversial take, but I think as I’ve matured into this profession, I’ve realized that it really is, especially with Charli, about personal style. I think we, the collective we, have found what that truly is, so it’s always about staying true to that instead of a reinvention for every single project. Brat of course is a part of that vision, because people think of her in a specific way as that was when she really broke out, but she has elements that are definitely not Brat about her style too. Think of the Grammys on Sunday, it’s not Brat but it’s also a continuation of something, an evolution, but still very core her.
We now have a pretty established look and feel, at least a feeling, when she wears something. With Wuthering Heights, yes, we’re playing a little bit more into it, and we also don’t get to wear big dresses a lot, so that’s fun. I’m not a huge “method dressing” fan, so I would rather lean more into her wearing British designers and some little Easter eggs.
Right, and to your point, “method dressing” is not a very Charli thing. The gag of Charli as a public figure is that she is Charli consistently in whatever context, which makes it fun.
She also can wear anything. I mean, her energy and power is very strong, so I feel like it’s so much more credit to her than it is to even the clothes. She can just kill anything.
I’m curious about how you think of The Moment.
For The Moment, we were more thinking about playing into the Brat of it all, because it is about that. I thought that we could definitely dip back into those concepts way more frequently. For the L.A. premiere, for example, it was the Brat remix. I call it the Megamix [laughs]. And that wasn’t even the plan. We had something that we had fit, a really low-rise capri and a black leather bra, but the day of Charli wasn’t feeling it, so I was at my studio and I still had the Ludovic [de Saint Sernin] Jean Paul Gaultier corset she wore at the Grammys [in 2025] and I was like, what if we just put something together with pieces of greatest hits? It felt like a good sendoff to everything, and it felt like it had meaning.
Charli xcx at the Los Angeles premiere of The Moment.
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