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The Story Behind David LaChapelle’s Charli XCX New York Cover Shoot


“She’s stuck in a dreamscape, but in the end, she frees herself.”

David LaChapelle has spent much of his career photographing pop icons — among them Cher, Janet Jackson, and Madonna. Charli’s had such a strong career, but this is a new level for her, and I wanted to do something that was kind of tabloid but also add some surreal elements dealing with the nature of how she’s exploded. And it’s not to be read into too much, but, yeah, maybe she’s hallucinating about this whole thing — this sudden meteoric rise with Brat, then Kamala Harris.

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