Reading: Style on tour: Charli XCX and Chris Horan turn Vinted into a wardrobe cycle

Style on tour: Charli XCX and Chris Horan turn Vinted into a wardrobe cycle

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Charli XCX and Chris Horan have turned the singer’s tour wardrobe into a Vinted sale, putting on-stage pieces from the Music, Fashion, Film Tour into the resale market. The move lands just after the final U.S. show, making the clothes from the stage available to fans and shoppers who want a piece of the same Style.

That timing matters because the tour wardrobe was built from the same instinct that shaped Charli XCX’s look around the Brat rollout in 2024: a mix of archival fashion, East London thrifted finds and easy everyday pieces. Chris Horan said he wanted the clothes to feel exciting and different enough while still reading as an evolution, not a reset, and he spent time digging through fashion schools’ Instagrams for independent labels and using Vinted’s algorithm to find small Italian designers from the ’90s.

The result was a run of looks that carried specific stories from city to city. For Los Angeles, Horan paired ripped tees with R&M Leather gloves. For Austin City Limits, he reworked an early-2000s bedazzled Christian Audigier top as a dress. In San Diego, one of Charli XCX’s favorite pieces was a mint-green blouse with semi-sheer stripes that came from a collector in Bushwick who specialized in Y2K pieces. In Las Vegas, for the final U.S. show, she wore a black Roberto Cavalli minidress she had already worn earlier this month to an Academy Museum Gala after party.

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That reuse is the point. Charli XCX said she wears pre-loved pieces and clothes she has kept for years and years and years, and that she is putting on stage the things she wore when she was in the studio writing the songs. She also said she does not want to become a new person with each album, even though her music shifts from project to project. For her, the clothes are part of the same reality, not a costume change for every era.

What Vinted is selling now is a sliver of that process, not the whole wardrobe. The sale is tied to a single tour cycle, but the exact number of pieces listed has not been made public, and there is no word yet on when it will end. What is clear is that the line between stagewear and second-hand shopping has been erased: the same clothes that helped define the tour are now back in circulation, ready for someone else to wear.

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