Who’s who in Charli XCX’s ‘brat’ gang?

As brat summer gets underway, it’s now impossible to avoid the lime green album artwork as Charli XCX dominates the pop culture landscape.

And as the Essex-born singer’s star is on the rise, she has made sure to cultivate the ultimate pop-star accessory – a loyal girl group.

Charli’s song 360 is seemingly dedicated to her glamorous and loyal friendship group, which is full of famous faces including Gabbriette Bechtel and Julia Fox, who are mentioned in the lyrics. 

And for the music video Charli – whose real name is Charlotte Emma Aitchison – managed to reel in a whole host of classic ‘It’ girls to the new generation of internet ‘It girls’ – from Chloë Sevigny to Emma Chamberlain. 

But this is not the first time her contacts list and creative genius have come into play, as Charli, 31, has managed to bring together some of the biggest names in the industry for her song, Boys, in 2017.

It saw British Olympian Tom Daley take a shower, band Chromeo have a pillow fight, Joe Jonas eat a stack of pancakes, Charlie Puth wash a car while Stormzy wolfed down a bowl of cereal. 

It’s a tactic reminiscent of Charli’s pop rival, Taylor Swift, with whom she’s battling for chart success this summer.

Taylor, 34, often surrounds herself with formidable women in well-photographed public appearances; including the HAIM sisters, Blake Lively and Gigi Hadid.

But as Charli, (who once compared Taylor Swift’s fans to ‘five-year-olds’) builds her own entourage to rival the Bad Blood singer, is she coming for Taylor’s crown?

Here, FEMAIL delves into the fierce girl group who have Charli’s back in the 360 music video…

Gabbriette Bechtel 

Gabbriette Bechtel, a 27-year-old American model and musician from Orange County, first had a taste of the limelight as the lead vocalist and songwriter of Nasty Cherry.

Charli XCX formed the group in 2018, bringing together the four women from around the globe before moving them into a house in LA, according to NME.

She told the outlet: ‘Charli DM-ed me asking me to be in the band and I honestly didn’t have any details of what was going on around it, I just said yes.’

She asked for a video of Gabbriette singing to which she responded: ‘I don’t f***ing sing,’ before Charli responded: ‘That’s even better.’

The pair first met when the brat singer booked her to play a zombie for one of her music videos in 2016.  

In her younger years, she did ballet before finding modelling and has since worked with big brands such as Diesel, Bottega Veneta and Skims.

Not only are Charli and Gabbriette linked musically, but their fiancés are also in the same band, the 1975.

Charli’s partner is George Daniel, the drummer for the indie group, and Gabbriette is set to marry Matty Healy, the main vocalist. 

Matty and Gabbriette now live in Los Angeles and she is often snapped wearing her sizeable engagement ring which has a large black diamond in the middle. 

The pair got engaged mid-June and were first seen together in September last year, after his brief romance with Taylor Swift.

She announced the engagement with a photo taken at a Charli XCX concert in New York where she was singing her heart out to the songs alongside Julia Fox and Richie Shazam – who both appeared in the music video. 

The singer looked to Gabbriette for lyrical inspiration, even mentioning her in the hit song ‘I’m your favourite reference baby call me Gabbriette I’m so inspired’.

Julia Fox

You may have seen fans of brat compliment each other as ‘so Julia’. Charli wrote these lyrics as an ode to her friend, Julia Fox.

Julia, 34, is an Italian-American actress and model who made her debut in the 2019 film Uncut Gems. She has appeared in campaigns for Tiffany & Co, Supreme, and Coach.  

Speaking on the Zach Sang Show, she said: ‘[Being so Julia] means being that girl and being confident, putting yourself out there, being out, being about, being the centre of attention. Just being that b****.’

She also revealed how it was always a dream of hers to have a ‘shout out’ in a song. 

When Charli told Julia she was part of the song and that she needed her for the video, she played it cool when actually she was very excited about the project. 

She also praised her and said: ‘She’s amazing. She really supports women and she supports unconventional women and women that society looks at and is confused by and she’s not confused, she sees the truth.’

Julia also revealed that when 360 started gaining traction online she lost ’50 pounds’, adding that she ‘had to constantly remind herself to just be herself’. 

She married Peter Artemiev, a private pilot from Brooklyn, one month after they started dating in 2018.

They divorced in 2020 and proceeded to get into an on-off relationship before their son Valentino was born in 2021.

Julia made headlines when she dated rapper Kanye West for a month in 2022.

During this time, she turned heads in tight catsuits and all-leather ensembles and said there were ‘definitely some red flags’ in their relationship.

She wrote in her book, called Down the Drain, about how she was bought entirely new clothes and was not able to be seen in public with the singer without him approving her outfit choice.

Chloë Sevigny 

Chloë is an American actress, model and fashion designer from Springfield, Massachusetts.

She is seen as one of the original ‘It girls,’ having appeared in music videos for Sonic Youth and The Lemonheads.

And Chloë certainly brought that grunge aesthetic to Charli’s music video, when she is seen hopping out of a black convertible Porsche that is smoking. 

Showing off her slender legs in a black mini skirt, knee-high boots and a jacket, she struts along the road smoking a cigarette with Charli before throwing it into a rubbish bin that then catches fire. 

The 49-year-old starred in Kids, American Psycho, Big Love, Boys Don’t Cry and The Brown Bunny. 

She married Siniša Mačković in 2020 at City Hall in Manhattan, New York, but the pair did not announce the marriage until the following year.

Siniša, originally from Croatia, is an art director at Karma Art Gallery in New York and the couple met through their mutual friend, Lizzi Bougatsos. 

The pair have one child together named Vanja, who was born in May 2020, two months after they wed.  

Rachel Sennott 

Rachel is a 28-year-old American comedian, actress and screenwriter originally from Simsbury, Connecticut.

She is known for her role in Bottoms, Shiva Baby and Bodies Bodies Bodies and appeared the in New York City open mic scene as a regular on It’s A Guy Thing, which was snapped up by Comedy Central.

Rachel starts the music video by saying: ‘Charli! Oh my god, thank goodness you’re here.’

Sat down at a dinner table in a restaurant, she then says they can start filming ‘as soon as they find a new ‘It girl’. 

When Charli asks if Julia could be the solution to the problem, Rachel replies ‘Oh, Charli, that’s literally Julia Fox.’

Emma Chamberlain

Starting out as a YouTuber in 2016 and growing her channel to a whopping 12million subscribers, Emma is a regular on the red carpet. 

The social media star, who is from San Bruno, California, has been an ambassador for Louis Vuitton since 2019 and Cartier since 2022.

Emma, an only child, said times were tough when she was younger, adding that she would sometimes have to miss social events because there wasn’t the budget for it. 

Her father was in the art world, meaning that during periods of sickness, the family would not get any income as he could not paint, according to Forbes.  

Although she still uploads on YouTube, she has broken away from that scene and is invested in building her own coffee brand, Chamberlain Coffee.

She has no experience in building her own business and has not worked in the food or drink industry before, so she therefore did a trial run with Bixby Coffee.

They offered a limited-edition blend for a beta launch and it had sold out within 24 hours, with more than one million people clicking on the page, proving that Emma is in fact an ‘It girl’.

In the 360 music video, Emma is seen wearing dark eye makeup and her hair up in a messy bun as she sits in a truck that has just crashed.

She then gets out, wearing a brown cropped hoodie, mini skirt and over-the-knee black boots and steals a passerby’s coffee, before throwing it on the floor. 

Richie Shazam

Richie is an American model and photographer who boasts around 122,000 followers on Instagram and has ‘NYC Bollywood Princess’ in the bio.

Richie first entered the modelling scene by walking the runway for Vivienne Westwood and signed with IMG Models in 2021.

She is also Julia Fox’s best friend. The pair met when they were 15 at an after-party and then regularly went out to enjoy the New York City nightlife scene.

Richie said when she wasn’t welcome in her home, Julia gave her a safe place to stay, according to the New York Times.

Her mother died when she was in high school and the relationship she had with her father became strained as she explored her queer identity. 

Chloe Cherry

The 26-year-old actress appeared at the start of the music video and can be heard saying rather enthusiastically ‘hey girl,’ as Charli enters the room. 

She had a rather conservative upbringing in Pennsylvania and instead moved to Miami to pursue a career as a pornographic actress just one week after turning 18.

Just a couple of years later in 2019, it is thought she had made over 200 films and even started an OnlyFans.  

In 2022, Chloe starred in the hit teenage drama Euphoria in its second season as Faye, the girlfriend of a drug dealer.

In January of that year, she then signed a contract with Anti-Agency London and walked for LaQuan Smith during New York Fashion Week. 

Shortly after, she then announced that she was finished with the porn industry. 

Alex Consani

Alex, a transgender model from Marin County California, started working the camera aged just 12 years old. 

Her mother came across Slay Model Management, an agency based in LA that was made up of entirely transgender models, and she got signed before she hit her teenage years.

She told Who What Wear: ‘Having that title [of being the youngest-ever signed trans model] on my chest pushed me to work harder and strive more in my career.’

At age 16, she signed a contract with IMG Models in 2019 when she was 16 years old and then moved to New York City at 18.

Alex, 21, has worked with Tom Ford, Versace, Burberry, Chloe and Alexander McQueen since getting signed.

She appears on Charli’s video showing off her long legs in a hospital hallway with an older man lying on a hospital bed, while she blows smoke on him.

Towards the end of the clip, she is seen dressed in black, handing Gabbriette what appears to be a vape, before she smokes it.

Hari Nef

The 31-year-old American actress and model was also featured in the 360 video and appears towards the end in a short white and black slip dress.

She starred in the Barbie film alongside Margot Robbie and appeared in the hit Netflix series You, alongside Penn Badgley.  

Hari was the first transgender woman to be on the cover of a British magazine, appearing on the front of Elle in 2016.

In an interview with the publication, she said: ‘I wanted to wear certain clothes and couldn’t.

‘I sort of did it anyway, but there was always a friction with my peers and a mother who was less close-minded than worried.’

Greer Cohen

Many may be wondering who the waiter in the music video is, as Charli and her pals were chatting to her about how to be the next ‘It girl’.

Gabbriette can be heard saying: ‘Yeah, I like her,’ when Charli puts her forward as a suggestion. 

Rachel Sennott then chimed in and said: ‘I love her, totally waiter vibes.’ 

Greer is an actress and a production designer who has worked on films such as Dream Scenario, Ladies and Willem Dafoe.

Blizzy McGuire

Blizzy is a full-time influencer who boasts more than 123,000 followers on TikTok and more than 30,000 Instagram. 

Those who have heard of the ‘Christian girl autumn’ trend may have already heard of Blizzy, as she is the one who created the meme. 

She said she never finished school because of the Covid-19 pandemic but this led to her falling into the realm of social media. 

Blizzy, who has recently had bottom surgery, told Interview Magazine: ‘Then I started being trans. I started doing TikTok and I was like, ‘If I can make money doing this, I’d rather just do this’.’ 

She can be seen in the 360 music video when Charli is taking pictures and Blizzy is seen looking chic in glasses. 

Tess McMillan

Tess is a model from Texas and she can be seen in Charli’s music video at the end when the singer poses alongside her friends. 

The 24-year-old, who is now based in Brooklyn, started in the industry by sharing photos with a casting agent and she was signed immediately. 

Since being signed, she has walked for Dolce & Gabbana and Simone Rocha alongside Chloë Sevigny and Lily Cole and starred in a Rodarte campaign.

Quenlin Blackwell 

The 23-year-old influencer – who has two million followers on Instagram and 1.5 million subscribers on YouTube – could be seen in the clip alongside Emma Chamberlain.

She is dressed in a mini skirt and oversized sunglasses, ripping a car mirror off to check her makeup. 

Quenlin dubs herself the ‘God’ of the internet and has launched her own clothing brand, Riquera.

She was seen partying with Billie Eilish at Coachella and the pair shared a kiss at the music event.

The pair – who have not confirmed they are dating – have packed on the PDA before in social media videos.

Salem Mitchell  

Salem is a 26-year-old American model signed with Freedom Models LA who is known for her facial freckles.

She got spotted on social media after she was trolled for her appearance in a post that went viral, attracting attention from Paper Magazine. 

Salem was later signed to Ford Models and has worked with publications like Vogue, showing others how they can embrace their freckles.

She is one of the women sat at the table at the start when Charli walks into the room wanting to do her music video.

Salem can also be seen at the end when the credits roll trying to teach Greer Cohen how to pout. 

Peri Rosenzweig 

Fans of brat may be wondering who the stylish brunette stood on the right-hand side of Charli at the end of the video.

Peri Rosenzweig is seen dressed in a black tank top that shows off her toned midriff, sunglasses and leather trousers. 

She is a stylist who boasts more than 30,000 followers on Instagram and is a longtime friend of Julia Fox.

The actress hired Peri – who she has known for more than a decade – as one of her stylists in 2022 and summed up her style as ‘Monica Bellucci, dominatrix and future’ to WWD. 

Isamaya Ffrench

Isamaya is a British makeup artist who has worked with various publications such as  Vogue and Dazed.

She has also travelled the world working with the likes of Rihanna, Madonna, Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner.

She was the Global Beauty Director of Burberry Beauty and has since launched her own makeup brand, Isamaya. 

She can be seen at the end of the music video in between Peri and Tess sporting a black dress with a crucifix on it.

Matisse Andrews 

Matisse is a makeup-artist turned model from California who has been featured in numerous fashion editorials and brand campaigns. 

She has posed for pictures with Skims and walked the catwalk for Wiederhoef and APPARIS.

She shared a picture from the set of the 360 music video and wrote: ‘The hot internet girl committee is finally in session’.

Matisse made her appearance at the start and sat at the table with the rest of Charli’s girl group, before walking around the room. 

Anna Collins

Anna calls herself a ‘movement director’ and was born and raised in Toronto where she trained at Canada’s National Ballet School as well as the American Ballet Theatre in New York City.

She is the sister of Petra Collins, a famous artist and photographer who directed Olivia Rodrigo’s song ‘Good 4 U’ and has worked with other stars such as Carly Rae and Selena Gomez. 

Anna, who also works as a model, has also collaborated with her sister on projects for magazines such as Vogue and Interview. 

She features in the 360 music video dancing in the living room in the far right corner in leopard print hot pants, along with A.G Cook, a music producer, who is DJing.

Sakura Bready

Sakura is a designer who was born in Japan and raised in New York City but is currently based in Los Angeles. 

She has experience in Creative Direction, Art Direction, Print Design, Graphic Design, Packaging Design and Textile Design.

She has worked with Miley Cyrus and made custom typography for her Younger Now single, as well as being the art director for the Adidas Jeremy Scott campaign and for Paper Magazine.

She is seen at the start of the 360 music video, engaging in the discussion as to who will be the next internet ‘It’ girl.