The newly appointed creative director of NinaRicci has become one of the buzziest names in fashion despite graduating amid lockdown.
byOn Wednesday, Harris Reed announced that he is the new creative director of Nina Ricci in the caption of a photo of himself wearing a pair of tulle gloves from a couture collection the Puig-owned house presented back in 1992. The year gives you an idea of how remarkable Reed’s rise has been: That was four full years before the 26-year-old designer and longtime favorite of Harry Styles was born.
“To be a 6’4” , red-headed, long haired fluid designer who is unapologetically myself entering a brand I could have only ever dreamed of in Paris just leaves me full of excitement and love,” Reed said in an emotional statement prefaced with a recount of telling his mom he would one day be a creative director of “one of those French houses” he used to read about at night.
Reed first started gaining attention long before he even graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2020. He was tapped to design costumes for Harry Styles’s 2017 tour, which helped cement Styles’s own reputation for daring dressing and Reed’s reputation for gender fluid designing. His eventual graduation collection premiered online at British, and against all odds, he went on to thrive amid lockdown by embracing theatrics as he challenged traditional notions of menswear.
Harris Reed and Iman attend the 2021 Met Gala celebrating “In America: A Lexicon Of Fashion” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on September 13, 2021.Celina Ralph wears a Harris Reed gown and headpiece; stylist’s own gloves. Photographed by Campbell Addy forReed’s appointment could help put Nina Ricci’s name back on the lips of fashion editors and stylist in a way it hasn’t been since Olivier Theyskens’s acclaimed two-year tenure at its helm ended in 2009.
Helming Nina Ricci will present a whole new era for Reed, too. The designer has so far stayed clear of ready-to-wear, at times even working with just a single client a month. The caliber of his demi-couture is part of his aim for it to be “passed down from a grandmother to a trans son to their nonbinary daughter,” as he put it earlier this year. “It’s about bringing back that 360-degree cycle of beauty to the world.
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