He created a black suit with exaggerated square shoulders and trouser legs as wide as sails at Styles’s waist, a ball-gown skirt exploded, with white tulle and fuchsia ribbon draped over an architectural frame of black crinoline. Last fall, Vogue asked Reed to design an outfit for a cover shoot with Styles. “Every frill is there to be played with, and an overwhelming sense of freedom shall rain down upon you.” “To wear Harris’s clothes is to be having fun,” Styles told me, in an e-mail. The top was paired with a tiny black vest and pants with wide, flapping flares, giving him the look of an earl’s wayward son stumbling out of a brothel at dawn. Not long after, the stylist Harry Lambert commissioned Reed to make garments that Harry Styles could wear on tour, including an outfit that went viral on social media: a taffeta blouson shirt with puffed and ruffled sleeves and a dishevelled frilly collar. While still a student, he was identified as a promising talent by a stylist of Solange’s a photograph was taken of her wearing Reed’s white ensemble with the jacket turned back to front. But he is receiving widespread acclaim from fashion gatekeepers and forging the kinds of collaboration that provide financial support for a young designer’s creativity.

His output has so far been very limited: the designs could almost fit onto a single garment rack, and would if they were less voluminous. Reed graduated from Central St. Martins in the spring of 2020, and began using money that he made from modelling to start his own clothing line. In a series of Polaroids taken to show off the collection, Reed, who is tall and slender, modelled the garments himself in silver high-heeled boots, his face framed by cascading long hair, whitened like that of an aristocrat from the ancien régime. Reed has explained to reporters that the white outfit was inspired by a story he had imagined about an eighteenth-century aristocratic boy who, after being thrown out of his home for being gay, lives backstage at the Royal Opera House and plays dress-up with the costumes. The collection had only three other looks, but each was equally dramatic: an outfit of black matador pants, black jabot, and frontless jacket amber metallic pants and a matching top with flounced, detachable sleeves and a white ensemble that included a frilled bustier jacket, with a plunging square-cut décolletage, and a hat with a brim the size of a bicycle wheel. Martins, the London arts-and-design college, whose alumni include Alexander McQueen and John Galliano. Reed’s pink outfit came from a collection that he produced in 2017, while studying at Central St.

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