Charles Jeffrey: Last News

Welcome to Metro.co.uk‘s The Big Questions, where we ask, well, the big questions (and the smaller ones too) and this week, we’re diving deep with singer Charli XCX.In a nutshell: what a week.The superstar, 29, released her song Baby, was announced on the Glastonbury 2022 lineup, and is performing on Saturday Night Live tonight. She also announced she was pulling out of an NFT festival called Afterparty, following intense criticism that saw her step back from Twitter (sort of – more on that below).The work doesn’t stop though and as she prepares to drop her fifth studio album, Crash, later this month, which will be, she promises us, ‘cool as f**k’ Charli – real name Charlotte Aitchison – spoke to us about the perils of social media, her new campaign alongside designer Charles Jeffrey for Samsung and how the pandemic turned her from a member of the ‘straight-through-crew’ to someone with more of a proclivity for ‘good drinks and chic disco music’.It’s called growth.

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Hamilton and raised in Cumbernauld, said Pokémon now “permeates” his work.The franchise, which includes a TV show, video games and toys, has been popular with children and adults for more than 20 years. Charles, who has had A-list stars such as Harry Styles and Kit Harington queuing up to wear his clothes, said he likes the idea of “wearing something that makes you have a power”.The designer, who lives in London, said: “I was always encouraged to draw.“My mum would put pens and pencils in front of me and I’d just sit and draw all these characters.“I’d draw dinosaurs, I’d draw planets and lots of random stuff.“I got really into Pokémon at one point, which was quite unhealthy.