cliperry

[cliperry]

Harry Styles and One Direction Print Articles Index

Years

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

Solo articles by publication

Another Man

Arena Homme+

Beauty Papers

Better Homes and Gardens

Dazed

Elle

Esquire

FOTOGRAMAS

GQ Australia

Grazia

Guardian Weekend

Hello

Hits

I-D

Icon

L'officiel

Life

Lifeweek (Chinese)

Man About Town

Music Week

NME

People

Sunday Independent

The Big Issue

The Face

Time Out

Total Film

Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair Italia

Vogue (all editions)

Vogue Italia

Vogue Spain

Vogue Thailand

Voila

W

Solo and 1D articles by publication

Billboard

Girlfriend

GQ (all editions)

GQ - British GQ

Inrock

OK

Rolling Stone

Teenage Magazine

The New Yorker

The Times

Vogue - British Vogue

Weekend

One Direction articles by publication

81Japan

Aran

Bliss

Bop

Celebs on Sunday

Cleo

Cosmopolitan

Cosmopolitan UK

Daily Mail

Daily Mirror

Dolly

Entertainment Weekly

Event

Fabulous

Frida

Glamour

Heat

Hot

J-14

Mail on Sunday

Now

Parade

Ponystep

Seventeen

Sugar

Tatler

Teen Now

Teen Vogue

The Guardian

The Sun

The Sunday Mirror

The Sunday Times

Top of The Pops

We Love Pop

Wonderland

You

[cliperry]

Index

:)

[cliperry]

HARRY!

Love On Tour

“It’s been the greatest experience of my entire life. Thank you to everyone who came out to see us play. I feel so incredibly full and happy—it’s all because of you. You have given me memories that will last a lifetime, more than I could have ever imagined.”

“Thank you for your time, your energy, and your love. It’s been an honor to play for you. I hope you had as much fun as I did.”

“I’ll see you again when the time is right. Treat People With Kindness. I love you more than you’ll ever know.”

Take a Bow!

After his last tour ended, Harry Styles told his fans to look out for one another. “I’ll see you again when the time is right,” he wrote on Instagram.

Sign of the Times?

“Harry’s no longer a boybander,” notes a source. “He’s 31 and he’s evolving.”

Why He Disappeared

On the final night of Love On Tour, Harry surprised concertgoers in Reggio Emilia, Italy, with a 10-minute piano composition that he wrote just for the occasion. “I love you all so much,” he told the 100,000+ crowd on July 22, 2023. “And I’m gonna miss you.”

Since then, the “Watermelon Sugar” singer has taken a huge step back from the spotlight, resurfacing only in November for the funeral of his former One Direction bandmate, Liam Payne.

When he skipped the Grammy Awards—not just this year, but last year as well—fans took to social media, wondering: “Where in the world is Harry Styles???”

A source says the British heartthrob needed a break after his two-year, 169-show tour wrapped. “Harry’s been doing his own thing—roaming around London and Rome, taking in soccer matches, golf tournaments, and fashion shows,” the source reveals.

He has also been working on a collaboration with his lifestyle brand, Pleasing, and designer J.W. Anderson, a project he is reportedly very excited about. Meanwhile, rumors are swirling that he has been working on new music, with whispers that he is in talks to headline Glastonbury this summer.

“Music will always be Harry’s first love,” the source adds.

[cliperry]

[cliperry]

[cliperry]

[cliperry]

STYLES POINTS The top 30 tours in June did record-breaking business, helped along by the pop singer's gargantuan attendance totals HARRY STYLES IS NO. 1 ON Billboard's Top Tours chart for June. It's the first time that he has earned a monthly victory - follow-ing 12 prior appearances in the top five and it coincides with the end of his Love on Tour trek. After kicking off as one of the first major post-pandemic tours in September 2021, it wrapped in Italy on July 22. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the tour's last full month of dates earned $105.4 million and sold 967,000 tickets across 15 shows. That makes Styles only the second artist to earn a nine-figure monthly gross. (Bad Bunny first accomplished the feat in September 2022 on his World's Hottest Tour, raking in $123.7 million.) He also scores the highest monthly attendance total since the touring charts launched in February 2019, soaring above Ed Sheeran's 750,000 mark in June 2022 and Coldplay's 736,000 set in March of this year. In addition to Styles, the top 30 tours throughout June grossed a combined $957.7 million and sold 7.2 million tickets more than any month since the charts debuted in 2019.

[cliperry]

[cliperry]

[cliperry]

HARRY'S COLLECTION IS HERE – HA HA HA HA!!!

And now his own fashion line: His new Gucci fashion collaboration "HA HA HA" is the cherry on top of an incredibly successful year for pop superstar Harry Styles. Sit back and enjoy the looks, along with Harry’s casual remarks on style, sex, and raising children.

THE QUESTION EVERYONE IS REALLY ASKING ABOUT HARRY STYLES RIGHT NOW: What can’t this man do? Mega singer! Super entertainer! Great actor! And as one of the boldest fashion icons on the planet (we're talking: sequin jumpsuits! pink feather boas! ruffled dresses!), it was only a matter of time before he launched his own fashion line.

As of last week, fashion fans and Harry stans can shop the HA HA HA collection – a collaboration named after the initials of Harry and Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele – and admire Mr. Styles in the brand-new campaign photos.

"I’M NOT DROPPING BREADCRUMBS OF SEXUAL AMBIGUITY"

That Harry chose Gucci, his go-to fashion house, as his partner makes total sense – the brand that regularly outfits him in flamboyant looks. “I’m so glad we finally brought this project to life,” beams Harry (28). “I’ve known Alessandro for years, and he’s always been one of my favorite people. Watching him work is truly inspiring.”

“HA HA HA” is a perfect blend of vintage and avant-garde, reflects Harry’s fashion enthusiasm, and is sure to sell like hotcakes.

Similarly fast-paced was the ticket sales for Harry’s world tour promoting his May album Harry’s House. He performed 15 (!) times at Madison Square Garden alone. Demand was so overwhelming that more shows were added for the following year.

Then there were the two films he made that practically broke the internet. The futuristic thriller Don’t Worry Darling, full of scandal (a rumored love triangle between Harry, director Olivia Wilde – also his girlfriend at the time – and lead actress Florence Pugh, plus reported crew drama). And and My Policeman, a touching drama (streaming on Prime Video) in which Harry plays a gay policeman in 1950s Brighton alongside The Crown’s Emma Corrin. With $83 million in box office earnings, it was a solid cinema success.

While critics were mixed on his experimental acting choices, the film’s content and Harry’s fashion sense drew criticism from some: In queer circles, he’s sometimes accused of queerbaiting – that is, benefiting from the aesthetics and community of LGBTQ+ people without explicitly identifying or taking a stance himself. Time and again, fans and media call for Harry to take a clear position on his sexuality.

In an interview with the British Guardian, he said:

“I’m not dropping breadcrumbs of sexual ambiguity to be more interesting. In loose clothing or album covers, it’s a decision: Who do I want to work with? What do I want to wear? It’s not about trying to look one way or another, or dressing a certain way to seem cool. Sometimes I think, sexuality is so fun. Honestly, I can’t say I’ve given it more thought than that.”

His fans love him for that easygoing attitude. They’re grateful he’s created a space at his concerts where everyone feels safe, whether it’s couples of all kinds kissing, boys wearing glitter, or girls with pride flags. “Everyone should just be who they want to be,” says Harry on Radio Nova 96.4 host Howard Stern. “I just want people to have fun.”

[cliperry]

Harry, I only have a week of daily Harry posts left, it’s time to come back.

[cliperry]

“RANDOM” An artistic connection between the creative director of Gucci, Alessandro Michele, and singer Harry Styles. A profound dualism, the synthesis of a friendship that contaminates an entire collection: here is Gucci HA HA HA.

Photos by Van Mossevelde + N Styling by Edoardo Caniglia

In these pages, everything you see is from Gucci HA HA HA.

Jacket, tank top, scarf, jeans and boots Gucci HA HA HA.

In these pages, everything is from Gucci HA HA HA.

Models: Joss & C’Cee Vloters @ IMG Grooming: Pierpaolo Lai @ Julian Watson Agency Styling Assistant: Dario Usala Styling Assistant: Claudia Sciancalepore Location: Anfiteatro Location Agency Location Agency: anfiteatro-location.com

[cliperry]

Harry Styles: “I Have No Idea What I’m Doing”

By Jenny Davis / The Interview People

Fresh from his performance at Madison Square Garden as part of his Love On Tour, Harry Styles attended the 2022 Venice Film Festival for the premiere of his latest film, Don’t Worry Darling. The psychological thriller, directed by Olivia Wilde—whom Harry is currently in a relationship with—also stars Florence Pugh, Chris Pine, and Gemma Chan.

Here’s the synopsis:

“Alice (Pugh) and Jack Chambers (Styles) are a young and happy couple in the 1950s. They live in the seemingly perfect town of Victory, California, which has been created and paid for by the mysterious company Jack works for. Alice’s curiosity about her husband’s job at the enigmatic ‘Victory Project’ begins to consume her, while cracks start to form in their utopian life as her investigation raises tensions within the community.”

In Venice, Harry spoke about his latest role on the big screen, the differences between his music career and acting, social media, and the concept of community that surrounds him everywhere he goes.

⸻

Harry, you’re a musician on tour with an incredibly intense schedule. How do music and acting coexist in your life? Are they similar or different in any way?

“Personally, I find them to be the exact opposite, but they complement each other. I think music is a very personal thing. Acting is about pretending to be someone else. Most of the time, I don’t feel like I know what I’m doing when I act. That’s what makes it so fun. You’re just playing and simply exploring things. I think both fields can influence each other in a way. Each time you manage to see the world from a different perspective, even for just a moment, it can influence your creativity in any way possible. But yes, they are very different.”

“You know, the fun part of acting is that you don’t feel like yourself, but when you’re on stage as a musician, you feel comforted by it. The thing I like about acting is that I feel like I have no idea what I’m doing. And it’s quite fun.”

⸻

There are many fans following you everywhere in the world. Someone even held up a sign saying you are their only reason for living. How does it feel to play such an important role in the lives of so many people?

“Wow. I’d say I’m incredibly grateful to the people who have supported me throughout my life. Fans, in particular, have always given me the chance to be myself, to feel comfortable doing it, and to express myself in the kind of music I want to make. That’s all thanks to their support and the space they have created for me. So, I’d love to be able to give that feeling back to them. That’s really what I hope to do. Say hello, if I see you again!”

⸻

How was it entering the world of Don’t Worry Darling—a world on the edge between reality and illusion?

“I think it was, you know, fun to play in worlds that are not necessarily yours. In this movie, you’re supposed to feel like everything is perfect. Obviously, it’s fun to immerse yourself in that context. It’s like looking at fun things and doing a lot of cool stuff. So, I think it’s just nice to appreciate what has been done. But we are also lucky to have the world built around us, which gave us the chance to play in that reality rather than pretending that everything is nice and fine. It’s really fun.”

⸻

You relate to the concept of the film: that if we have control over our lives, then everything is perfect, happy, and simple. On a personal level, do you think being a control freak is worse than letting things happen naturally? Is control the only way to survive in the future?

“Humanity, yes. I think we live in a very protected version of life. Beyond what we hope for, people carry home from the film the idea of ‘what it takes for someone to give up what they have in favor of what is expected.’”

⸻

For centuries, men have been expected to take care of women and children, bring home food and money. In this sense, do you think your character is a victim of the pressure we still experience today?

“I think it’s difficult to look at the protagonists of this film and say that we should feel bad for them. But I think mental health in general, even though it’s being talked about more now than in the past, is still not discussed as much as it should be. The suicide rate and mental health issues are much higher among men, right? So, I think there’s a pressure that many men feel—this pressure of not feeling emotions, not expressing emotions, or not knowing how to handle them. It’s all connected to this complexity surrounding emotions.”

“After shooting the film, I read The Will to Change by bell hooks, which I think is the best explanation of a certain type of toxic masculinity and anger, and there are a lot of things in it that are definitely related.”

⸻

People say this film is a feminist manifesto. Do you agree?

“I think the issue of gender roles in the time the film is set is very similar to what can be found in any era of misogyny. I think this theme is incredibly relevant today, obviously, for everything that is happening regarding women’s rights over their own bodies. It’s terrifying to see how much this isn’t just a vintage issue, even though you’re watching something set in a different time period with old-fashioned clothing and architecture. These are themes I find incredibly relevant today. What’s surprising about the film is that its intention was to be enjoyable, and I think it’s a very entertaining movie. The best thing about it is that it feels like a real movie, the kind of film that makes you want to go to the cinema. Something worth seeing on the big screen.”

⸻

The film portrays a utopian community. How important is community in your life versus the broader community we all have today through social media?

“I think your community is a bit like the one you build. The most important thing is to start with what is a real community: family, friends, the kind of people around you, because that really influences your daily life much more than social media. I believe there are many negative aspects to social media. It’s obvious to everyone. But I think, yes, it’s always important to remember that there are also positive things happening in the world. Yes, I mean, the community is what you choose—your family, your close friends, and those you share your life with. This film is a great example of trusting your instincts.”

⸻

How do you see your future as an actor? What are your aspirations? Would you like to mix music and acting? You once mentioned Alabama Monroe as one of your favorite films—would you like to sing in a movie?

“Uhm, I don’t know, really. I feel very lucky to be able to do something I love as a job. Being able to explore these two creative worlds is something I feel incredibly lucky about. And as for the future, I try not to think too much about it. I live day by day. I enjoy both. It’s fun, it’s really fun to be able to work in both worlds and see how they influence each other. Every time I’m inspired by something, I should try to pursue it. But, I don’t know, I try not to think too much about being honest. That’s a good movie.”

[cliperry]

ELLE Trends

AS YOU LIKE IT

Ruffles, skirts, velvet and silk: purely women’s things? Not really! Originally, this style was MASCULINE. And today it inspires ALL OF US...

A ROYAL BLUE VELVET SUIT, paired with a red ribbon in his hair and a swan on his shoulder. Extravagant, to say the least. But for Harry Styles, it’s a surprisingly restrained look. The British pop star often appears in transparent blouses or clothes adorned with pearls and feathered hats. But not only does he wear it all—he does so with great joy and playful flair, breaking away from classic male images.

Harry Styles’ velvet-blue outfit is a typical Gucci look. Designed by Alessandro Michele, who has long championed the Renaissance of “genderless fashion.” He enthusiastically overturns traditional norms: dressing men in sequins and ruffles, blending women’s and men’s collections. The photo from Gucci’s 2019 campaign is one of the highlights of an exhibition already generating buzz before its March opening: “Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear” at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, which explores how masculinity has been staged through fashion—and how much of what we consider typically feminine today was originally men’s fashion. Like the robes and jewelry of Egyptian pharaohs. English gentlemen in the 15th century wore opulently embroidered brocade jackets with lace collars. Ornate garments like those of Louis XVI. Or those ruffles, velvet suits, sashes and deep necklines worn by Oscar Wilde. The fluidity between masculine and feminine has existed for a long time—especially for Harry Styles. Shakespeare’s actors played women, and men regularly slipped into one role or another.

What better time for such an exhibition! Gender diversity is a hot topic.

[cliperry]

[cliperry]

[cliperry]

EXTRA HARRY

The Truth About Harry Styles’ Hairline – and 9 Other Secrets We Learned Hanging Out With the Pop Superstar

Here are a few things — including Styles' favorite books, his thoughts on Joni Mitchell, and who he wants to work with — that didn't make our September cover story. By Brittany Spanos August 24, 2022

Over the past several months, I crisscrossed the world, following Harry Styles as he rolled out his impressive, game-changing third album, Harry’s House, and played explosive, sold-out shows for hundreds of thousands of fans from Coachella to New York to London. We finally sat down in Hamburg for a long conversation that spanned his career and personal life, and later caught up on the phone while he was in Italy. 

During our interviews, he revealed his thoughts on fame, relationships, how toxic the internet can be, what he does in his downtime, and a whole lot more. You can read most of what he had to say in Rolling Stone’s September cover story, but he shared so much that we couldn’t fit it all in. Here are 10 more things you learn when you’re spending time with pop’s leading man.

No, Harry Styles is not bald. After a DeuxMoi blind item claimed an A-list male pop artist and occasional actor was secretly balding and wearing a hair piece, a few TikTok conspiracists began speculating that Styles might be the star in question: Few people are more A list than Styles, and he’s been in a several movies, including Dunkirk and the upcoming film Don’t Worry Darling, directed by his girlfriend Olivia Wilde. Fans started zooming in on pictures of his hair, wondering if it might actually be a toupee. 

Styles laughed it off and said he didn’t even know his hairline was a topic of discussion until his friend and collaborator Tom Hull (a.k.a Kid Harpoon) told him about it. 

“He’s completely obsessed with it,” Styles says of Hull. “He won’t stop sending me messages about [people] trying to work out if I’m bald.”

Styles confirms he’s not bald yet. “What is it with baldness? … It skips a generation or something, right? If your grandad’s bald then you’ll be bald? Well, my granddad wasn’t bald, so fingers crossed.”

The success of “Watermelon Sugar” started with a bunch of little kids and took him by surprise. Styles noticed that “Watermelon Sugar” — the mega-hit from his 2019 album, Fine Line — seemed to be connecting with his tiniest fans first. “Sometimes you’ll meet people and they’ll be like, ‘Oh, can you meet my child? They’re a massive fan,’ and the child’s like 18 months old. This person’s a massive fan?” Styles says. “And I remember someone coming up to me at a party with their son, who was really small, and he started singing ‘Watermelon Sugar,’ and I was like, ‘Oh, OK.’”

The videos kept coming. “‘Watermelon Sugar’ was probably the most amount of videos I’d had from friends sending me pictures of their kids singing it, like videos of them just dancing around,” Styles says. “It wasn’t a single when we put [it] out. It was just like, ‘OK, interesting … this is a high volume of videos of small children singing the song.’”

From there, it blew up in a way Styles wasn’t expecting. The song took off during the pandemic, and even though people couldn’t go out, they were still showing the track love. “We couldn’t do anything, and it kind of just did its thing. I think it was a really nice reminder that songs have the power,” he says. “It’s timing, and if people connect with it, and how people are feeling, and what they feel like they want … that part of it feels like it’s just really lucky.”

He wants to keep working with Dev Hynes.  Hynes and Styles have been working together a lot lately. Hynes was the surprise guest and musical director for Styles’ 2021 Grammy performance of “Watermelon Sugar,” and he went on to play cello on “Boyfriends.” Currently, he’s opening for Styles’ 15-show Madison Square Garden residency, performing under his stage name Blood Orange. 

Styles wants to keep the relationship going. “I think the way he works is really special. I’ve definitely felt very lucky that he played on the album,” he says. “I hope we can do some more stuff together going forward at some point.

He’s open to having proper features on a future album, but only if it happens organically. While Styles has worked and performed with plenty of intriguing artists, he’s never had a real feature or collaboration on his albums. “I would do it if it happened organically — if I wrote a song with someone and that’s why we wanted to do it,” he says. “I want to put out stuff exactly the way that I want it to be.”

He says “collaborating for the sake of it” isn’t something he wants to do. “But if it happened in an organic way, then I’d definitely be open to it,” he explains. “I really like disappearing to go make music, and I don’t necessarily expect someone to come with me into that process in such a massive way. Maybe one day.”

Steve Lacy and Paolo Nutini made two of his current favorite albums. Lacy’s Gemini Rights and Nutini’s Last Night in the Bittersweet, both released this year, have been recent favorites for Styles. After reading Haruki Murakami’s Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa, Styles also got into classical pianist Glenn Gould, who Murakami and Ozawa talk about in the book. (“I tried to listen to stuff as they were discussing, which was fun.”)

He’s also got Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers on repeat (“It’s one of those albums where if I’m going to listen to it, I know I want to listen to it in its entirety. I’m not dipping in and out,” he says), and has been playing lots of the English rock band Wolf Alice, who opened for most of his European tour dates. 

He’s thrilled that he got to spend time with Joni Mitchell. Over the past couple of years, Mitchell has convened special groups of artists for salons she co-hosts with Brandi Carlile. Styles has been a longtime fan of Mitchell’s and was one of the lucky few to get an invite. According to Maggie Rogers, he even sang Mitchell’s “River” at one of those gatherings

“I can’t claim to know her that well,” Styles says. “It’s one of those things where if you listen to her music, you feel like you know her very well. And then you realize that you don’t. But it was definitely really special to meet her. It’s one of those, for me, where you meet people like that and just realize how important songs are.”

One of his favorite books is Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking. Styles is famously well-read, and he found himself particularly struck by the Didion classic. “I think that was the first book I read twice,” he says. Recently, he’s also been moved by Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning and Alain de Botton’s The Architecture of Happiness, both gifted to him by a friend. He’s also been reading Jon Ronson’s So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed and Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad.

He can’t believe how loud people got singing the “Leave America” line. During his European and U.K. tour dates, fans found one way to express how unhappy they were that Styles had been in the U.S. and that they’d had to wait so long to see him. During “As It Was,” they began screaming out the “Leave America” line from the bridge. It became so loud that Styles stopped singing it himself and let the stadiums take care of it for him. 

“They’re definitely reaching some decibels,” he joked just a few days before wrapping the dates overseas. “It seems to be getting louder and louder right as I’m about to head back to tour America. So I’m intrigued as to what exactly will be shouted at that section when I’m in America.”

It was hard to fit “Fine Line” into his set list. Styles performed his second album’s epic, fan-favorite closer at the first couple of shows of his U.K. dates, but he found it didn’t fit with the set. “If I’m honest, it’s really difficult to place in the set now because there’s songs that I would like to play there,” he explained at the time. The nearly seven-minute, slow-building track originally followed softer ballads “Matilda” and “Boyfriends. “We played it at the first couple shows, and when I played it, it just felt like this moment is just a bit too long, energy-wise.”

Removing it was a tough call because of how much he loves the song. “It’s one of my favorites on the album. Because the new album had come out, it felt strange to close the set with it because it’s from a different album. Everywhere we’ve put it in the set, it feels squeezed in. But I love the song still. It’s not like I’ve changed my mind on that one,” he said. 

But after he took it out, fans across U.K. and Europe spent most of the tour begging him via signs, tweets, and endless TikToks to put it back in. “I’m going to play it before the end of the tour,” he promised Rolling Stone. He made good on the promise when he sang it for the crowd in Lisbon, at the European tour closer.

His friends are a mix of childhood and work pals. Over the years, Styles has been able to keep a few of his school friends by his side. Most of his closest friends are people he met after moving to London at the beginning of his career. He describes these past two summers as some of his favorites, since he was able to catch up with family and old friends in London.

He’s also thankful that he’s so close to many of his colleagues. “With touring and making albums and stuff, you get so close with people and you spend so much time with each other,” he says. “My relationship with the people that I work with is, I would consider, a pretty unique one. I think a lot of the people that I work with are the same people that I choose to spend time with outside of work.”

In his off-months, he focuses on quality time with his friends. As he’s gotten older, he’s realized how important that is to him: “My favorite experiences over the last several years are when it’s with a group of great people. You can go to a shitty restaurant with your favorite group of people and that’s a way better meal than having dinner with people you don’t like in the nicest restaurant.”