Harry Styles

2022 - 12 - 27

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10 Times Harry Styles' Style Stole the Show This Year (PEOPLE.com)

See 10 of Harry Styles' best looks from 2022, from his fur coat at Coachella to his sharp suit in Venice.

For the second of Styles' Gucci HA HA HA looks in Venice, he chose a pinstripe jacket over a white tank with navy blue trousers. He wore a custom look featuring light green trousers and a dark green double-breasted jacket with a silk flower. His all-black Gucci Spring 2023 suit had a retro feel, with its band-collar jacket and belted waist. To spice up the look, though, he opted for no shirt under the sweater vest and topped the look off with sunglasses. He attached his [Emi Jay Floral Clip](https://www.emijay.com/products/midi-super-bloom-claw-clip-in-dragonfruit) to his luggage for safe keeping while he made his way through the crowd. Just days later, Styles crossed the pond for the Toronto International Film Festival with the cast of My Policeman. When he arrived in Italy, he wore this elevated casual look with jeans, a sweater vest and jacket, all from his collection. For an appearance on Howard Stern, Styles chose another custom Gucci look, this one with bright green pants and a ringer tee covered in strawberries. The "As It Was" singer completed the look with black Vans that he could run around the (very wet and rainy) stage in. Last time Styles appeared on Today, in 2020, he also wore a JW Anderson piece that has since become iconic: the knitted rainbow sweater that inspired fans around the world to knit their own version. When he first stepped on stage, he topped the look with a long black furry coat also from the fashion house. He wore the vest open, leaving his many tattoos on display.

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The Year Pop's Men Dismantled Their Masculinity (The New York Times)

In 2022, stars including Harry Styles, Jack Harlow and Bad Bunny offered liberated takes on gender, but also risked pandering. Are men OK?

And Styles’s and Harlow’s music often betrays that by its relative weightlessness, its sense of existence in a space free of any great existential cares. He’s man enough to let the question hang there in the air. 1 this spring, turned “Glamorous,” Fergie’s blingy 2007 hit about luxury and hard-earned success, into a chivalric invitation for a lady to come enjoy the good life on Harlow’s dime: “I could put you in first class,” he clarified. Styles, too, has won fans and admirers by treating his gender presentation as something of a playground, whether that means wearing a dress on the cover of “Vogue,” refusing to label his sexuality or flipping the familiar script of the older male auteur/younger female muse in his much publicized relationship with his “Don’t Worry Darling” director Olivia Wilde, who is 10 years his senior. Healy’s songs are, as the critic Ann Powers put it in an astute (Just one example: “I thought we were fighting, but it seems I was ‘gaslighting’ you.” Yeesh.) Styles and Bad Bunny have been accused of the very contemporary crime of “queerbaiting,” or cultivating a faux mystique around one’s sexuality to appeal to an L.G.B.T.Q. Consider that Timberlake’s early aughts success involved the excessive vilification of his ex Britney Spears, or that a performance that pantomimed a kind of hyper-heterosexual dominance over Janet Jackson had virtually no effect on his career, but nearly ended hers. A technically dexterous rapper with an easy charisma and a head of Shirley Temple ringlets, Harlow is known for making artistic choices that spotlight his skills and convey his seriousness as an MC. But it’s also because the cultural forces that shape the norms and expectations of what a male pop star can and should be are evolving. To overemphasize straightness and alpha-male stereotypes, though, presents its own risks, especially in a post-MeToo moment. “This lady taught me how to sing,” he told the raucous crowd of over 100,000 when the song was over.

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