Meet the former Bottega designer who helped Harry Styles transform his look

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Everything Harry Styles wears makes the news. Whether he's wearing a dress or a Halloween costume, his fearless sartorial statements only make him more lovable in the eyes of his ever-growing fan base. You could say his style is what he's become known for in recent years - before the Don't Worry Darling press tour, at least - but OG followers are aware that the penchant Styles for Fashion started much earlier than that.

Harry Styles in 2013.

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In the early days of One Direction, where Styles got his start, Tumblr was the social platform where so-called "Directioners" found community and collectively obsessed with the British boy band. Even I had a Tumblr dedicated to the intersection of 1D and fashion. (Look at me now!) This particular crossroads of interests was not uncommon. Every piece of clothing worn by the boys would be singled out, documented, critiqued and revamped by countless teenage lovers on blogs and fan accounts.

To put it simply, fashion hasn't always been Styles' thing. Its initial uniform of khakis, plain white t-shirts, and blazers morphed into super-skinny jeans, graphic tees, and hats as the band and its fans grew older. From its inception in 2010 to its (devastating) demise in 2016, each of the members of 1D has undergone their own fashion evolution. Styles' clothing journey since going solo? It cannot be ignored.

"If we're talking about Harry Styles, we need to talk about it," says the designer, referring to the famed stylist famed for dressing the Grammy- winning artist. Lee worked with "The Harrys" in 2014, when Lambert started styling the singer. He had just graduated from London's prestigious Central Saint Martins when Lambert asked to use the young designer's pieces for editorial shoots. "I was freaking out," Lee recalled. "For a second, I thought, Was that spam?" Soon after, Lambert started working with Styles, and he kept coming to see Lee.< /p>

When One Direction performed on Saturday Night Live in December 2014, Lambert pulled out one of Lee's shirts for Styles to wear it, and Tumblr ate it. "It was like the biggest news for me that year. It was epic for me."