“I was literally speechless,” says the 26-year-old designer of being asked to create pieces for his icon to wear on her British Vogue cover.
Harris Reed’s party trick is performing Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” dance. He learnt – and perfected it – as a youngster, and doesn’t care that it might be considered basic now. The song, like all of Queen B’s work, hits home. “As a young queer kid who came out in quite a conservative environment, hers is the music I’d play on the bus to school, when I was alone in the playground and eating my lunch by myself, dreaming of more of a glittering, romantic, fabulous world,” says Reed.
Who else could create a statement spherical headdress for Bey to wear while astride a horse? Or monster platforms to rev up a motorbike in? “I got into fashion because I was obsessed with performance, alter ego and being a heightened version of the best version of yourself,” muses Harris on the stylistic parallels between his own work and that of the pop powerhouse he idolises.
The peacock feathers used to fashion Beyoncé’s dramatic headpiece, in fact, were leftovers from the fantastical headpiece Reed painstakingly made for
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