Designer Harris Reed: 'How are we still outraged by me putting Harry Styles in a dress?'

Before anyone had heard of the designer Harris Reed, they had seen his suit in Vogue. Or was it a dress?

A tailored suit with peak shoulders attached to a hoop-skirt draped in tulle and hot pink satin garlands, it was worn in the magazine’s December issue not by a Hollywood starlet, but by a popstar: Harry Styles. Arguably, it was both.

Reed, who made the outfit in six days using Venetian wool, duchesse satin and a glue gun, describes it as “an exact juxtaposition of a suit and a dress”. Within hours of the magazine’s publication, it had become a symbol that far transcended its parts. For some, it was a referendum on outdated gender-norms.