Another look, for rolling around in the hay bales, sees Charli don a belt and tights from the south London-based label Knwls fall 2025 collection, the studded belt slung low on her hips over a drapey purple halterneck dress and sparkly stockings. Charli has long been a Knwls woman, a a fan of Charlotte Knowles and Alexandre Arsenault: on her Brat campaign, she wore some oversized denim trousers from Knwls spring 2024, which were were never produced. “Now everyone wants them,” the designers told Vogue Business at the time. Zamiri even shot the fall 2026 Knwls campaign.
In one meta scene, Charli puts her laundry out to dry on the garden line. She wears a rose-pink top stitch bra from Fleur du Mal paired with a sheer, low-rise polka-dot skirt. Among the laundry she’s pegging up are pieces from across her artistic eras. Horan, over on his Instagram Stories, dropped the details: a ruffled lilac crop top and pants co-ord worn for a Pop 2 performance in Los Angeles back in 2018; there’s a polka-dot silk scarves dress from All-In that she wore in the “party 4 u” video; and a black t-shirt printed with the graphic “Me&AG&George&Sophie&Hudmo” which was part of her Brat merch.
“Wink Wink” follows “SS26,” a visual that was a who’s who of the fashion. Staged as a runway show, it’s an if-you-know-you-know endeavor when clocking the front row: iconic fashion editor Carine Roitfeld, supermodel Debra Shaw, and Saint Laurent’s Anthony Vaccarello (Charli xcx was just appointed as a YSL beauty ambassador), as well as PR powerhouse Lucien Pagès, legendary sound producer Michel Gauber, and some of Charli’s favorite indie designers, like Benjamin Barron and Bror August Vestbø of August Barron.
Sexy, self-referential, subversively stylish, and always a little bit silly: Charli XCX at her best.
Photo: Aidan Zamiri
