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After winning Grammy Award in 2022 Harry’s House and the following 22 months Love is on tour, Harry Styles has all but disappeared from public view, with only the occasional photo – strolling the cobblestones of Rome or walking through Hampstead in an ever-expanding pair of trainers – as evidence of his existence. But this week, after more than three years of silence, the music began. “Aperture,” the lead single from his upcoming album, is over five minutes long keep kissing. Disco, occasionally Hailed as the antithesis of today’s hits made for TikTok, it slowly burns from minimalist electronic pulses to a head-turning half-song of sounds and thoughts: “I’ve got no more tricks up my sleeve, the game is called censoring players.”
Photo: Stella Blackmon
I figured it was a little more cerebral than “as is,” so in the accompanying video, he’s wearing custom Prada: the brand for thinking people. The look was a bit mature, a bit sexy for liberal arts professors, and included a navy cotton poplin coat, a gray cashmere sweater, a shirt, wool trousers and lime green Collapse sneakers. (The era of ultra-thin sneakers he helped usher in seems far from over.) Fashion historians also view the lip print on his shirt as part of Miuccia Prada’s spring/summer 2000 collection—the same product that birthed Charlotte York’s immortal lipstick pattern—which appeared on a pleated skirt worn by Stella Tennant and a ribbon vest worn by Audrey Marnay. Fashion Describing the collection as “one of the most influential and successful of the season,” he praised Prada’s translucent dresses, oversized travel bags and large sunglasses as having a “cosmopolitan feel,” while adding, “It’s this knack for giving classic, seemingly ordinary clothing a sophisticated sense of style that keeps audiences asking for more.”
Courtesy of Prada.
Courtesy of Prada.
The same can be said for Styles’ subtle but significant style shift in his years away, which has allowed him to enjoy more civilian or “normal” attire. Take, for example, the 2024 photo of him in Rome with Alessandro Michele, the man who designed all his late-2010s bows, feather boas and flashy trumpet suits, wearing a striped T-shirt, Levi’s and Adidas Sambas. Or, more recently, when he walked around northwest London in 2025 wearing a long gray wool coat and slacks made by Olsen. (In fact, isn’t that the exact look he wore in the “Aperture” video?) If styling a performer in a sequined jumpsuit and styling a man in utilitarian pants once felt like two different forces, Keep kissing. Disco, occasionallyIn the artwork, he’s only wearing a Patrick Carroll T-shirt and jeans from The Vintage Showroom, suggesting the distance between them may be closing now. To be fair, though, he always wears sophisticated sneakers.
