Charli XCX revels in an increasingly hellish Fashion Week in a scintillating spectacle created by director duo TORSO.

With much of the same frenetic energy and brilliantly chaotic choreography in TORSO's previous collaboration with Charli, the terminal and runway at Charles De Gaulles airport in Von Dutch is replaced by another type of runway here. It's an end-of-days fashion show where Charli is the primary and often only runway model. 

The film opens with an appearance from former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief Carine Roitfeld, setting the tone immediately: “Fashion won’t save us. But let’s go on the runway and walk.” A manifesto-like statement that captures the video’s intention.

The camera drifts somewhere between fashion documentary and pop nightmare, following Charli through a series of saturated tableaux populated by models, stylists, photographers and figures from across the fashion industry. TORSO build on the aesthetic they previously developed for Von Dutch; SS26 is shot like an adrenaline-fuelled sprint, blurring the line between fashion performance, cultural satire and dystopian pop fantasy. 

Between tense backstage moments, couture silhouettes, orchestrated chaos and blinding camera flashes, Charli moves through a world where glamour becomes a survival mechanism. The aesthetics of Fashion Week are transformed into a fully apocalyptic spectacle. And she is the star of the show, walking a fine line between celebration and mockery...