Fashion

How Harry Styles’s Iconic Hair Has Evolved Over the Years

From his One Direction days to the haircut heard ’round the world….

From boy band frontman heartthrob to buzzy actor to flamboyant fashion icon, December cover star Harry Styles has enjoyed a career marked by big, bold moves. Along the way, the pop star’s (undeniably great) head of hair has served to echo his growth, marking transitions with fluid above-neck styling that served to supplement his sartorial inclinations.

Styles’s One Direction days came with a lustrous mop of not-quite curls worn brushed across his forehead, fluffed up to voluminous heights, or pushed back by myriad fabric headbands. As he began to embrace his identity as a style savant—now more of a mainstay—Styles’s mane was there to amplify his cause, combed back into ever-higher sweeps and bouffants, growing all the while. By 2015, Styles’s rumpled, finger-raked brunette hair was decidedly long, halting a few inches past his shoulders and offering casual tees and jeans a grunge appeal while artfully offsetting more elegant options, like the floral suit he donned for that year’s AMAs red carpet.

Then came the haircut heard around the world, an above-neck transformation chosen to accompany Styles’s role in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk. The chop also closely coincided with the 2017 release of Styles’s first (self-titled) solo album, thus visually ushering a new phase of his career. From there, the multi-hyphenate has enjoyed a more polished take on his mane, opting for combed-back crowns and textured curls, volleying between medium-length and abbreviated, but kept far shorter than his past length level. For an appearance at the 2020 Brit Awards this past February, Styles coupled a burgeoning goatee with a piece-y look, hair pulled upward in segments for a jaunty feel—made all the more striking when finished with a simple string of pearls. And for Vogue‘s December cover story, Styles emerges from a cyclonic year with a sleek coiffure, a style as unruffled as the star himself seems to be. Here, a quick peek at Styles’s eye-catching hair evolution.

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

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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

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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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