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| Charli XCX at London Fashion week |
Part 1 of the Beautiful Female Celebrities photo series featuring female celebrity photos taken by myself Frank John at various locations and events. A sort of Top 20 with no particular ranking
Charli XCX appears on the front page of the Frank John website and has been on the front page in some shape or form for a year or more. Why...quite simply she has something going on.. beyond mere looks.
The Photo Taken at London Fashion Week part of a series of photos of about a dozen. Most were taken outside Victoria House in Central London where the LFW event was taking place. Julien McDonald if I remember correctly. That photo where she is in the middle of a paparazzi storm features near the end of this blog post. This photo below is possibly the only shades up shot of her outside the event????
PHOTO: Charli XCX arrives at the Julien McDonald Event, LFW Central London
She's in her early twenties here, she's in her early thirties now and a Cambridge girl originally as far as I remember.
This is one of the few photos taken outside where she had her shades up the rest outside Victoria House it was shades down in front of at least 15 or so photographers. I asked permission for this shot laced with a bit of sweet talk like "you look a million" or something similar. Seemed to do the trick she stopped dead in her tracks.
Some other photographers turned up seconds after this photo (no secrets in London) and blasted the living daylights out of her, she just stuck her tongue out at them. I have the photos but for obvious reasons I can't publish them here. So looking back I was lucky to get this one. Very lucky. If you're in you are in with this one, if you are out it's the single digit...non negotiable end of story. That's the impression I got.
Not the best photo I have ever taken and it looks like she is walking down the middle of the road, but she is there, looking good and we have direct eye contact. May have even been an exclusive...shades up?
The Look I'm no fashion expert but she has got her own thing going on here. It's a sort of girl next door look mixed with wild child celebrity. She doesn't need much make up and I think she knows it. One of those trendsetters rather than trend followers. I'm an individual and I do my own thing..... if you like it fine...if you don't I couldn't care less. Could be wrong on this but I'm pretty good at figuring people out.
She's one of those smouldering types and it's all in the eyes with this one, no big teethy grins here. Looking at past Getty photos or Google her name and she comes up a lot and she is not a smiler this one (most of the time), more just a glimmer with a hint of attitude....that's her trademark.
PHOTO: Charli XCX (shades down) arrives at the Julien McDonald Event, LFW Central London
Watch her music videos and you will see her musical persona. That's her celebrity identity and her brand. In real life she is probably quite different or maybe the same. I don't know her personally. Last time I saw her was in the form of an advert in Central London on a bus shelter on the Tottenham Court Road. Converse High Tops I think was the ad and the same trade mark moody look in that ad. What can I say! Got the photo on my phone somewhere. If I find it, it will be here, it's buried somewhere?
More info Check her Wiki at Wikipedia.org and her Instagram @charli_xcx and her website at charlixcx.com
This article originally appeared on Frank John London



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