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The untold story behind Harry Styles’ incredible Lights Up outfit by the designer who made it

Harry Styles sumptuous new video for Lights Up took the world by storm last week. Exclusively for GQ, the young, half-American, half-British designer Harris Reed shares the inner workings of how Styles’ killer blue outfit for the brand-new solo song came together…

If you know about Harris Reed, you know. And if you don’t? Well, keep up at the back. Reed is one of fashion’s most exciting new talents, his designs lauded for their sparkly romance, their craft and unbridled otherworldliness. Reed came to GQ’s attention a couple of years ago while he was still at Central Saint Martins, his designs already imbued with a silhouette that was both modern and nostalgic, all washed with an achingly cool, non-binary LA energy: his aesthetic has darkness, light, glamour and a non-threatening sense of their own sexiness. His designs aren’t just gender-fluid, they’re like wearing liquid gold.

Fashion’s worst-kept secret is the fact that Reed has been working with Harry Styles for a couple of years now, making one-off outfits for the singer’s spectacular stage shows and offering the musician looks that seem in harmony with his renewed sense of self and megawatt style. Last week, when Styles’ lascivious, wonton, sweaty and damn good new song, “Lights Up”, was blasted out into the world, we noticed it was one of Reed’s bespoke designs that the artist had decided to wear for his second solo jaunt. As the video caught fire and went global, we called the ever-charming Reed to talk to him about working with Styles, how the outfit for “Lights Up” came about exactly and just how far he thinks Styles is willing to go with his new covetable gender-blurring aesthetic…

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