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[thestylesindependent]

📸 Hannah Moon

[tryhoney]

Wish I was around, I just wanna make you happier, baby.

[stylesnews]

LATE NIGHT TALKING, JULY 13

[harryisart]

Late Night Talking | July 13th

[twopoppies]

“If you’re feeling down i just wanna make you happier baby wish i was around”

“you know when i'm with you, i'm so much happier, nights like these, we'll remember those songs we wrote, only we know...”

[thewildseuphoria]

Late Night Talking wallpapers. 🧦

[allmylouv]

Weddings in Music Videos ADORE YOU (2019) | LATE NIGHT TALKING (2022)

[ladychlo]

Hello!! I briefly saw in your tags one morning about the flowers that Harry was wearing in the LNT mv. Did you ever elaborate more about the flowers? What can you tell me about them, if you don’t mind? Thanks!

Hi love!

I talked a bit about it here because it was the first thing I noticed, of course, its just a queer reading but I found it quite interesting that he was wearing the big flowers in three scenes, the observed bed/ the date/ the wedding. so it made me think of Queer Botany and The aesthetic movement in Britain and how flowers were queer coded in what comes to art either writing (oscar wilde, virginia woolf..etc) or visualized like paintings (Van Gogh's sunflowers) and decoration. And besides Lavender and violets were and still representitive for lesbians and sapphic women, the Pansy Craze well for ''pansies'' and effeminate men, green carnation is famously worn by Oscar Wilde as a symbol of homosexuality and sunflower and the lily were also one of the most recognizable floral icons of the Aesthetic Movement and their significance has a queer connotation through this movement.

and recently the V&A Museum did an exhibition called Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear with Gucci as a partnership, and on the finale of the show they had the Gucci ball gown that was worn by Harry on the cover of Vogue to talk about  gender-blurring fashion X

they also have Harry as the background for the exhibition announcement on the website

he is was wearing one of the now exhibited suits

In the exhibition they also have a section called ''Queer Botany'' where they explain how flowers and botany, in general, was used to signal queer identities:

Oscar Wilde for example was famously known for wearing the green carnation during appearances ''the color green and the carnation flower were queered representations of the homosexual “underbelly” of the Aesthetic Movement'' X

and it makes you think of the big flowers or the lilies Harry was wearing in the music video with his date and on the wedding

not only the Green Carnation was a representation of the queer side of the aesthetic movement but also Lilies and sunflowers.

for example, these two teapots satirise, mocking with their big flowers (lily and sunflower) tucked in their buttonhole and their limp wrists the movement, these two teapots were actually a satire with a criticism underneath it towards the way the movement was defining gender and sexuality, under the teapots is written “Fearful consequences through the laws of Natural Selection and Evolution of Living up to one’s Teapot'' portraying ''fears circulating in the 1880s about the effects that effeminacy and the blurring of gender roles might have on the future British population'' X

the lily and sunflowers were sort of used to symbolize how queer people used them to reverse a heteronormative meanings of the flowers, and how they were used to gender bend what feminine and masculine means:

the sunflower and lily were typically ascribed to the male and female gender, deftly queers the sunflower motif as it also existed as an “emblem of aesthetic longing” related to both unconditional, yet unrequited love [...]

the sunflower and lily are symbols of aesthetic longing and purity, respectively (..) the sunflower speaks to unrequited love that “dares not speak its name” as Wilde is often quoted, or a love that could not find valid acceptance in nineteenth-century society. X

the lilies for example, through this aesthetic movement and the queerness that defined it, these flowers were queered enough to no longer mean traditional interpretations of purity but as a way to reevaluate the definition of purity and '' arguing for a perception of queer identity that isn’t considered “dirty”'' X

like the Lily, through this movement and the queerification of botany as aesthetic, ''the actions of queer couples could be and were viewed as natural and organic within this cultural subset. Natural, beautiful, and pure, the lily could thus be invoked as the apotheosis of the Aesthetic Movement, while simultaneously being a symbol and defense of homosexuality'' X

so yeah, to just conclude, I think its really interesting that he had the flowers (that are actually from the new collection of Gucci called love Parade) with his date and while officiating that wedding :)

[zourried]

Late Night Talking: Music Video - Behind the scenes

[harrysayingnympho]

i loved the nod to tracey emin’s bed installation!

[ialwaysknewyouwerepunk]

that comparison between the polaroids with the girls vs. with the male date, make me think about the pap pics vs. some of the photos Harry that used to post on ig that had a clear nod to louis (or for both of them) . like that one with the double shirts and the caption "strong" or the one with the 3 hands where's you can see that one is louis' (because of the knuckle). you can't see his face but u know he's represented in there (physically or metaphorical)

yea *quick sob break* and how in basically the entire mv, just like in all of his work, louis is there in between the lines, shining through the cracks (see what i did there), bc no matter what he does, there's louis. the blue details, the hints to their shared past that we probably only understand shreds of. with harry's life as shown to the public, louis hasn't been shown to be a part of that, but he's still always been there. the gp doesn't know, bc the paps don't take those pics. it's private. same here with the solo male presenting date. in an earlier part of the mv, there is another male presenting bed partner, waaaay down the line next to harry and all the other ppl, snoozing happily and fully dressed, and what struck me is how nothing the male presenting dates are doing is performative. they're comfortable and just there to be with harry

[tryhoney]

you know, just harry officiating a lesbian wedding on a bed

[stylesnews]

Sabrina Carpenter covered “Late Night Talking” in the Live Lounge. 

[suesheroll]

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