Charli xcx Hits the 2025 Academy Museum Gala—and the Lorde Show—in One Night

She’s everywhere, she’s so Julia!

It doesn’t take an LA geography whiz to know that Charli xcx covered a lot of ground this past Saturday night, shuttling between The Kia Forum and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Before her surprise performance of “Girl, so confusing” with Lorde at the Kiwi singer’s Inglewood show, Charli stopped by the 2025 Academy Museum Gala—in custom Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello, no less.

While Charli recently attended the premiere of Erupcja at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Academy Gala unofficially signifies her movie star turn. (Also on the docket is her forthcoming A24 film, The Moment, a fictionalized account of Brat Summer, co-starring Alexander Skarsgård.) And though her active Letterboxd cements her as a true cinephile, what better way to mark her movie star style than a custom gown based on Saint Laurent’s fall 2025 collection, complete with a sheer lace top and drop-waist leather ball skirt? “It’s heavy and huge and absolutely drama,” Charli tells Vogue. “I’m obsessed.”

Here, Charli xcx brings Vogue along for the ride from The Forum to the 2025 Academy Gala.