Charli XCX Is British Vogue’s May 2026 Cover Star

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Charli XCX Is British Vogue’s May 2026 Cover Star Photographed by Rafael Pavarotti and Styled by Kate Phelan.

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For Charli, life is art. “It’s not like I do it then I take the weekend off to do hobbies or whatever,” she says in a tone that could shutter every macramé club in the country.

On a vintage shopping spree for a Vogue video to accompany this cover story she will say: “I always try and not think, ‘These are my pop star clothes and these are my daily clothes.’ It’s also how I feel about my wedding dress. I’m gonna wear that, like, loads of times. The dress I wore to my afterparty, I literally wear it all the time. I wore it on stage in France with Air first before I got married in it. Why not? My husband rewears his suits all the time.”

Despite resetting the tone for celeb weddings, Charli says with a guilty laugh, “I don’t really want to write songs about my husband forever. I’m not sure how interesting that is, and he knows that. If I write about our relationship, I’m probably only really interested in writing about some of the more obscure feelings of being married.”

Just last year she was saying music no longer felt “dangerous” to her. “I’ve been making music since I was 14,” she says matter-of-factly. “It’s nearly 20 years. I feel very spoiled saying this, but there is not much that can thrill me within music any more.”

[Photo Credit: Rafael Pavarotti for British Vogue Magazine]

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