In 2020, Harry Styles became Vogue magazine’s first-ever male cover star. It was then when he explained his passion for fashion dates back to his childhood. “As a kid I definitely liked fancy dress,” he told the outlet. Styles explained that participating in school plays also influenced his style evolution — starting with getting cast as a church mouse named Barney. “I was really young, and I wore tights for that,” he told Vogue. “I remember it was crazy to me that I was wearing a pair of tights. And that was maybe where it all kicked off!”
His mother Anne Twist likely contributed to Styles’ fashion-forwardness as well. In an appearance on the U.K. talk show, “Lorraine,” Twist said she loved dressing Harry and his sister Gemma when they were growing up. “I think maybe I had something to do with it, because I was always a big fan of doing fancy dress with them when they were smaller, which Gemma hated, but Harry always embraced,” she shared.
Styles also credits his musical heroes — including Prince, David Bowie, Elvis, Freddie Mercury, and Elton John — for inspiring him to dress freely. “As a kid it was completely mind-blowing,” he said on “Lorraine.” “Now I’ll put on something that feels really flamboyant, and I don’t feel crazy wearing it.”
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