Harris Reed Is Harry Styles’s Secret Fashion Weapon—And He Can Be Yours Too

Reed’s story first intersects with Styles’s in 2017. Reed had moved to London to start his studies at Central Saint Martins and was working on his first project for the university: to create an entirely white garment. Reed’s was “a huge white hat, corseted bustier top, and white flare trousers.” He posted it on Instagram. Hours later he had a message from Harry Lambert, the stylist, asking to borrow the look for a shoot in Amsterdam. Days later, Lambert asked Reed to sketch some designs for a client—but he wouldn’t say who. “[Lambert] gave me some loose references. We were talking about Bowie, Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix… I had an inkling it was for Harry Styles because I knew that Harry was Harry’s client, but I was not fully sure.”

The custom pattern for Harry Styles

Photo: Harris Reed

Reed and his small team worked out of London’s Standard Hotel

Photo: Harris Reed

Reed created an inspiration book and final sketches that met the brief and showed them to the stylist. “I got a call a couple hours later being saying, ‘OK, he wants to meet you.’” The he in question was indeed Styles. “I was in a tutorial and my teacher was ripping me to pieces. I remember she was like, ‘You’re never going to be a good designer. You’re never going to even be an assistant. You’re not going to go anywhere!’ I was like, ‘Well, I really gotta go, I have a meeting with Harry Styles at the Apollo Theatre.’” Reed arrived wearing a fake fur jacket, no shirt, silver flares, and platform boots. “It was kind of like dynamite,” is how he describes the moment of meeting Styles and his team of creatives. 

Since then, it’s been go, go, go. The three Hars—Styles, Lambert, and Reed—collaborated on lamé ruffled blouses and flares for the rest of Styles’s 2017 and 2018 world tour. Months later, Reed appeared in an advertisement for Gucci’s Memoir d’une Odeur fragrance campaign beside Styles. He has already released a debut line of candles, made in collaboration with his mother, and today his platform boots will exclusively launch on MatchesFashion.com. Though he only just graduated from Central Saint Martins, Reed has experienced the kind of success and press coverage established designers wish for. 

The garment in process

Photo: Harris Reed

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