By admin on March 3,2024 • Comments Off on As Harry Styles Invests In SS Daley, The Designer Reflects On The Transformative Impact Of His Famous Fan’s Support

Applause was still resounding at Steven Stokey-Daley’s autumn/winter 2024 show in Florence tonight as the news was breaking that Harry Styles has invested in “a minority stake” in the designer’s quirkily British SS Daley brand. It’s kind of a natural – although unusual – story of a mutual admiration that’s grown up between a heartthrob popstar to a generation, and a young fashion designer.

It’s been very much organic,” said Stokey-Daley. “One of the really nice things is, Harry approached me and sort of made it apparent that he was a fan of what we’re doing. And of course, I’m very much a fan of his.” Stokey-Daley is 27 to Styles’s 29-years-old; close in age and eye-to-eye on the enjoyment of championing a new cosily-cool, trad-modern stamp on British dressing.

Their relationship tracks back to 2020, when Stokey-Daley had just graduated from Westminster University within a hair’s breadth of the first pandemic lockdown. Things could’ve gone very wrong for him at that point – despite the rave reception he got from the few who’d seen the accomplishment of his queering twist on British aristocratic school and sporting codes. He returned home to Liverpool and started posting his collection on instagram – within weeks, his radically super-wide pleated Oxford bags were garnering orders from young men from the US to South Korea, all similarly locked down.

That was the point at which a friend told Stokey-Daley that the stylist Harry Lambert had posted an instagram call-out for emerging designers to submit their work to him for a project he was working on. Lambert soon called Stokey-Daley and asked him to send pieces from his grad collection for something else: Harry Styles’s video for his track “Golden”, shot in Portofino. “When it came out, he completely widened the spotlight for me,” the designer remembers. “There was a huge acceleration in my orders. And it just escalated from there.” Styles was seen – and obsessed-over by fans – running around in SS Daley’s breezy pleat-fronted cotton-linen shirt and a pair of floral printer Oxford bags. “They were made from curtains my grandmother found in a charity shop in Liverpool. She was brilliant at doing all my sourcing of vintage materials at that time.” (The “Harry” trousers and shirt are now stopping crowds of schoolchildren in their tracks at the Rebel: 30 Years of London Fashion exhibition at the Design Museum.)

It seems silly to say “and the rest is history”, because this was under four years ago, and Stokey-Daley has only just turned 27. His drama-led productions have since caused sensations, and Harry Styles has kept on popping up in the brand: his mallard cardigan, a suit and other things. But with this announcement of financial investment, his support is now of another order. “It means I’ve been able to relaunch my direct-to-consumer website, and take on staff,” Stokey-Daley says. With the new polish of the made-in-Italy tailoring he showed today, along with his signature Oxford bags and cute bunny rabbit and gambolling lamb sweaters, it’s a boost that’s sure to enable him to get to the next stage of fulfilling his promise – and all of the orders that’ll flood in once the Harry Styles news gets out.

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By admin on January 1,2021 • Comments Off on Candids: Walking down the road in Santa Barbara

Harry was spotted with Olivia Wilde, Olivia Wilde, Tommy Bruce, Glenne Christiaansen and Jeffrey Azoffs walking down the road in Santa Barbara.

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By admin on January 1,2021 • Comments Off on Candids: Spotted returning from a hike in Los Angeles

Harry was spotted with a friend returning from a hike in Los Angeles.

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By admin on October 10,2018 • Comments Off on At the Casamigos Halloween Party

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By admin on October 10,2017 • Comments Off on Leaving the gym in London (24.10)

I added to gallery new photos of Harry leaving the gym in London on October 24th:

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By admin on March 3,2017 • Comments Off on March 8th – Leaving Cottons Rhum Shack restaurant in Camden

I’ve added photos of Harry at Cottons Rhum Shack restaurant and leaving restaurant in Camden on 8th March. Check them out!

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By admin on March 3,2017 • Comments Off on New photos from Cosmopolitan UK in HQ!

I’ve added two new HQ photos with Harry from Cosmopolitan UK (2012)! Check in gallery:

By admin on May 5,2014 • Comments Off on 16th May – Leaving Food Lab in West Hollywood

I have added photos of Harry leaving the Food Lab in West Hollywood on 16th May. Check them out below!

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By admin on May 5,2014 • Comments Off on 9th May – At the Fasano Hotel pool

I have added photos of Harry at the Fasano Hotel pool on 9th May. Check them out below!

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By admin on May 5,2014 • Comments Off on 8th May – At the Rojo Tango Show in Argentina

I have added photos of Harry and Liam at the Rojo Tango Show in Argentina on 8th May. Check them out below!

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