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

American designer Harris Reed calls Harry Styles and Harry Lambert his “guardian angels.”…

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.”

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The custom pattern for Harry Styles

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pReed and his small team worked out of London's Standard Hotelp

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. 

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A$AP Rocky Turned An Entire Manchester City Kit Into His Album Rollout

A$AP Rocky at South by Southwest 2019
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A$AP Rocky doesn’t do album rollouts quietly, and this one recruited an entire Premier League club to help. Manchester City, PUMA, and Rocky teamed up on a limited apparel run tied to “Don’t Be Dumb,” his 2026 album, timed around his September 5th show at Co-op Live.

The centerpiece is a long-sleeve PUMA King jersey in black and archive gold, with “DON’T BE DUMB” running down the sleeve and AWGE branding worked in throughout. A bold “MANCHESTER” graphic covers the back. Fans could also add limited “A$AP 11” name-and-number printing onto the club’s actual Home, Away, or Third kits, while supplies lasted at retail.

There’s a players-only version too, and it never went up for sale. That one sticks closer to City’s usual sky-blue identity, with its own sleeve detailing and back graphic — the kind of piece that exists purely because a handful of people got lucky.

The whole rollout kicked off with a one-night pop-up on September 4th, when PUMA turned a spot in Manchester’s Northern Quarter into a pop-up cafe for the night, mixing football, music, and street style into one room before the wider release hit the stadium store the next morning. Some of those jerseys even came with golden tickets to the concert or that Saturday’s match.

Rocky has called the project true to his own design language, and it’s not even his only club collaboration this cycle — a similar drop with AC Milan landed around the same time. At this point, the line between fashion week and matchday has basically disappeared.

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Quavo And Lids Are Going All In On Atlanta With Their New Cap Pack

Quavo photographed in 2019
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Quavo has never been shy about his hat obsession, and Lids just gave him another outlet for it. Their new “Atlanta” pack drops September 12th, marking another round in a partnership that’s been running strong since 2019.

The collection is a love letter to the city, spread across three very different caps. One mashes up pinstripes, script lettering, and Braves branding into a single design, working navy, red, white, and light blue into the mix. Another goes the opposite direction entirely — fully iced out in crystal detailing, done up in black and red, with both the Falcons and the Braves showing up in the design. The third strips things back to an old-school “ATL” trucker cap in red, white, and gold, the kind of understated piece that lets the city’s name do the talking.

None of this is new territory for Quavo. He’s talked before about waiting on hat releases as a kid, and that same excitement seems to be what’s kept this partnership going years past most celebrity collabs. His earlier Lids run leaned on one moment — the Braves’ 1995 World Series win — but this pack pulls from the city’s whole sports history instead of just one highlight.

Lids has called Quavo one of the rare voices who can blend music, fashion, and sports without it feeling forced, and this drop backs that up. Given how fast his past releases have moved, Atlanta might want to set an alarm for September 12th.

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