The first Cover Story from Stories on Zalando: Charli XCX, photographed by Aidan Zamiri in a house built inside a Berlin studio.

  • With Highsnobiety
  • Photography Aidan Zamiri
  • Styling Chris Horan
  • Set design Stefanie Grau
  • Production Akkurat Studios
  • Location Berlin

Stories on Zalando launched in September 2023, and Charli XCX was its first Cover Story, made with Highsnobiety.

The set designer Stefanie Grau built a house in a Berlin studio: a bedroom, a dining room, a room of stacked furniture, a room with a mud floor and a garden with a bare tree.

Aidan Zamiri photographed Charli XCX through all of it in one day, partly on film.

Charli XCX in close-up, strands of hair across her face, with a dark sky lit orange behind her.
The cover, photographed by Aidan Zamiri
Charli XCX turns in a pale yellow room of piled furniture, her hair flying and the curtains blowing.
Charli XCX sits on the edge of a white bed in a lilac cardigan and one white sock.
Charli XCX looks out from behind a net curtain beside a shuttered window.
Charli XCX sits on the floor of a bare room in a sequin dress, an orange scarf trailing into a hole in the floor.
Charli XCX, in a black leather trench coat, leans back against a table laid with fruit.
Charli XCX stands on a sofa in a room with a mud floor, one boot raised, looking straight out.
Charli XCX sits on grass under a bare tree at night with her eyes closed.

The work