MUCHAS PROBLEMAS is the muscial outing of one of couture’s true enfants terribles, Charlie Le Mindu. The French artist/designer has dressed everyone from ballet dancers to RHOBH’s Rinna and Doja Cat for her fever-dream furry fantasy at Coachella.

At the end of January, in the same week no less, he dropped two dazzling collections. First, after a ten-year break, Le Mindu returned to the runway with SKINS, his Spring 2026 show, featuring avant-garde sculptural pieces made with his trademark, human hair. Second, his MUCHAS PROBLEMAS musical debut, a declaration of his devotion to the intimacy of fisting across five tracks that take the listener on a journey through orgasmic highs and not-so-happy endings with ‘Tina’.

Today Le Mindu unveils the video for new single, ‘MUCHAS PROBLEMAS.’ The video was created by close friend Rita D’Albert and shows a standard Muchas Problemas night in a dark room…through the art of puppetry! Currently on the tour with PEACHES, Le Mindu tells Loverboy he’s now the ‘good boy’ and Tina should never ever be invited to your throuple.

Charlie, congrats on the new EP. This year has been a return to haute couture for you and also your musical debut! Did you plan to do both at the same time? Because it’s only mid-Febraury and for most people that’s a lot!
Yes, I planned it the same day,  and honestly, why not do it again in six months? It was intense, but I love intensity. I love the three-month build-up, the pressure, holding two projects at once. I had great feedback on everything. I did it for myself and didn’t expect anything in return. The hardest part wasn’t the show, it was the come-down the week after. That drop is real. Next time, I’ll manage it better. I’ll learn not to fully stop after such big moments.

I saw you saying a year ago in the SHOWstudio interview that you were working on Muchas Problemas and that people had kept telling you to get into music. Whose opinion was the final one that made you say, ‘Yes, it’s time! I’m doing it’?
My friend Robert Alfons (TR/ST) was like, ‘Yassss Muchas Problemas,’ and I thought he was just enjoying the absurdity of it, how ridiculous and funny I was being. He was laughing and singing along to the demo in the car when we were in Mallorca. That’s when something shifted for me. I realised it wasn’t just a joke. It was actually good. That’s when I decided, ‘OK, this is serious.’ And he asked me to open for him at the Brooklyn Steel.

Why did you opt for so much of the project to be in Spanish?
There’s some German in it, English, Spanish, weirdly no French. I just love singing in different languages. Sometimes I mix three in the same sentence because it simply sounds better that way. I even wanted to make an album in Esperanto. But strangely, people seem to understand more when there are three languages inside one sentence.

Let’s talk about the concept. Was fisting always going to be the subject for the first EP?
The concept was always about intimacy and control, about how far you can go emotionally and physically without losing yourself.  Muchas Problemas is autobiographical in that sense. It’s about going inside something fully and not pretending it’s polite. But its cosy!

 

Can you tell us about your first fisting experience? Should everyone give it a go?
My first experience was very young. The guy was about 75. It was winter. You know how freezing those darkrooms can get. Back then there was no Heattech Uniqlo or maybe it was just too expensive for me. Fisting was honestly the only way to keep my hands warm.
I don’t think everyone has to try it. But I don’t think people should be closed about it either. Exploration is not a threat. I will never force my way into someone, I’ll make them believe they have to invite me.

How did you find working on the music itself?
It’s fun for now. I screamed, I shat, and let it all out. And I’m lucky I have three incredible collaborators with me on this project: Romain, Raph, and Simon. I love those guys. The energy we bounce off each other is electric. It’s playful, it’s intense, and they constantly push me.

‘Tina’ has a softer, more naive energy. Tell us about what vibe you wanted to create for the closing track?
Tina – one of my ex boyfriends’ best friends. She ruined my life and my ex-boyfriend’s relationship too. They were seeing each other secretly. And obviously, I will never say it loud enough, but you cannot trust anyone in relation to her. She is killing it tho! Like she has too many people under her power. It’s sad. People have to be aware of this, it’s not spoken about enough.

We also have the new video for ‘Muchas Problemas’. Amazing. Can you tell us about the conception of this video?
I worked with my best mate RITA D’ALBERT and her partner Nigel. I know Rita from Peaches and Lucha Vavoom, when we all did lucha libre together. The video is basically how she sees me. She had full control of it.

We know MTV has died. Where would you most like to see this video being broadcast?
I think on MUBI because that is where it would be the least restricted. Or any CHRISTIAN TV in AMERICA?

You performed live at the EP launch too. Will we be getting any more live dates?
Yessssss!!!! I’m opening for Peaches!!!!! in Miami and in Orlando!!! Then PARIS!!!!!

Muchas Problemas is a new addition for the fisting playlist. What else would make the playlist for you?
Well I do always have a mix antwerpen of clara 3000 when I FIST or Soundcloud Radio 1 remix of Claude Von Stroke is great. It really depends on what they want to feel.

You have said that as you age you want to continually be more and more punk in your art but more settled in your personal life. Those feel conflicting energies. How do you ensure the comfort of your personal life does not seep into your art and make it ‘safe’?
I have a lot of love to give. But I’ve learned something recently. I was very toxic in my relationships. And for a long time, I didn’t care. When you don’t care about your own life, it’s hard to care about anyone else. My last relationship was a mirror held directly in front of me. Everything I had done in the past, the detachment, the damage, the way I hurt my exes it all came back. Karma arrived. And for the first time, I was the ‘good boy’. I felt it from the other side. It was a giant slap in the face. That’s when I realized how much I had hurt people over the years. I realised that if I love fisting that much it’s because it’s really about trust and caring.

I read in one interview that your Mum was a drag king and a stripper! Amazing. Can you tell us more about your childhood and her influence on your work?
This must be a very old interview. There was a time when journalists would twist so much of what I said, rearrange words, shift context, that it almost didn’t matter what I answered. So I started giving them complete nonsense. If you listen to some of my old interviews, my mum would sound like a tiny hairy drag creature. Though she’s not far from that fabulous. She inspired me massively. She put me in drag, or at least supported me when I wanted to explore it. She would go out dancing in drag herself, wearing leather, ripped fishnets. She looked incredible. A true bar dancer, completely fearless.

You’ve worked with everyone from porn stars, to mainstream pop stars, Real Housewives and professional ballet dancers. Has working with any of these characters resulted in push back from any potential collaborators? Or funding?
I work with people who inspire me, especially strong women. Women like my mum, who were never afraid of their bodies or of speaking openly about them. Artists like Peaches. I grew up around women who were loud about freedom, loud about taking space, loud about being allowed. So when people say, ‘Oh, it’s just another man showing naked women,’ I understand the question. But my reference point has always been women who owned their sexuality and their power. That’s the lineage I come from. This is why I do collab with places like Pornhub, ‘cos NOW they back up sex workers, they back up models, support them and make sure they’re treated like queens! Sure I’m gay but I’m not inspired by men and I mean all MEN, GAY, CIS, TRANS….Love their inside up to the torso but that’s it!

When you worked with Doja and Chappell I felt we were experiencing a Charlie Le Mindu renaissance. What brought you back to working more with pop stars again?
DOJA is major. It was one of the most beautiful collabs also in my career. Brett Alan Nelson really was awesome to have me on this one. I will never thank him enough.

Lastly we are named after the biggest selling single of 2001. So we always ask what is your favourite Mariah Carey song?
The ROOF.

MUCHAS PROBLEMAS EP is out now.
MUCHAS PROBLEMAS are on tour now with PEACHES. See Tour Dates here.
Photos by Lily Burgess.