Charli XCX’s Punk-Impressed Robe on the 2024 Met Gala Was Made From Patchworked T-Shirts

For Charli, it was a chance to go all-out along with her trend, with out worrying about any of the sensible issues of selecting a costume to your common night time out in town. “I don’t assume practicality has a lot to do with the Met Gala, I feel it’s actually about dedication to the theme and making a once-in-a-lifetime second occur!” Charli says. “I’ll say although, regardless of the practice being fairly lengthy, the costume is definitely actually snug.” (The final touch? A mini aged-leather Marni Trunkaroo bag in embroidered crystals for an additional splash of glitz, in addition to a tourmaline ring from New York-based jewellery model Dyne by Sarah Ysabel Narici.)

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With Charli presently on the promo path for her upcoming sixth album Brat—between co-hosting Vogue’s pre-Met social gathering this previous weekend, she additionally discovered time to throw a avenue social gathering in Bushwick and DJ a few of her new tracks alongside Kesha and The Dare at Le Bain—the musician has been channeling the report’s club-ready power with a collection of smooth, ‘90s-inspired seems to be. However she notes that even when her look tonight reads extra romantic, it nonetheless feels on theme for the Brat period.

“The album is revealing—it’s about embracing your flaws and being brutally trustworthy,” says Charli. “It’s about being okay with being just a little damaged, just a little raveled, just a little risky—nevertheless it’s additionally celebrating the boldness to do this within the first place. I feel this costume speaks to comparable themes. It’s a magnificence within the chaos-type scenario.” So too did the wonder look, which she labored on with the avant-garde make-up artist Isamaya Ffrench and MAC Cosmetics—“we needed to create a make-up look that felt gothic and romantic to go with the raveled delicacy of Charli’s Marni costume,” Ffrench stated—and the hair by Matt Benns mirror the spirit of the album.

“We have been going for an ultra-romantic, ’90s-inspired really feel,” she explains. “The lid is sculpted with a taupe powder and gloss and that’s precisely what I’d do in my each day life or if I used to be going a rave. And Matt Benns did the hair and it’s completely punk however intricate on the identical time—form of a Nina Hagen vibe—and in addition tremendous Brat!”