Harris Reed, the young designer who dresses Harry Styles, named at Nina Ricci

Even before being the new revelation of London Fashion Week in September 2021, Harris Reed was already well known on the fashion scene.

This Californian by birth, son of Oscar-winning documentary producer Nicholas Reed and model Lynette Reed, modeled for Alessandro Michele at Gucci, while studying fashion design at the famous London school, Central Saint Martins College.

With his androgynous, non-binary personality and his

universe (very inspired by David Bowie and the New York Dolls of which he is a fan), he was contacted in 2018 by Harry Lambert, Harry Styles' stylist, who offered him a imagine the artist's stage costumes.

A fruitful collaboration which earned him the call of Anna Wintour to dress Harry Styles in the December 2020 series of Vogue magazine, the historic cover of which featured, for the first time, a man.

Her outfit, a Victorian-inspired dress (echoing the dress on the Gucci-branded cover), did not fail to make ink flow on this questioning - however, quite expected - of gender norms in clothing.

Since that breakthrough, her work has been highly prized by pop stars from Adele to Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus.

If the designer is fully in the world of pop culture, he nevertheless cites less literal references such as the Belgian designer Ann Demeulemeester,

In 2022, Reed has an early consecration by being exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London as part of the exhibition “Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear”.

From now on, he will have to show his talent on the Parisian catwalks since September 21, he was appointed creative director of Nina Ricci.

The house, founded in 1932 and now owned by Puig, wants to “

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Its first collection will be revealed in early 2023.