TS: I loved seeing one of my favourite images of yours in the book – one of Harry Styles for Another Man. I think it was the first issue of Another Man I wrote for, so it’s very special to me. What do you remember about that shoot?
AM: I mean, he’s a really lovely person. The reason why I like to take people back to where they’re from is because it gives them enthusiasm towards the project. It’s why I constantly go back to where I’m from. It generates an excitement and an enthusiasm for the pictures, for the photo shoot and for showing a different part of themselves; what they were like before they became this big person. The reason why we sat him on that bin was because he used to sit on that bin during break time or lunchtime. There was a moment when we were taking a picture at Holmes Chapel train station, and one of his old school friends got off the train and [Harry] started talking to him like he’d seen him at school last week. It was quite sweet to watch. Harry was no longer Harry, he was just a schoolmate.
TS: I guess you regress when you go home. So was there a sense of photographing him in his truest form?
AM: Yeah, there is that. It’s sort of a combination of both – there is who he is. But like, it’s nice to take him back.
sometimes it hits me like bricks that LONG HAIR HARRY actually wore a collar in a photoshoot. I mean 😳😳
Listen… that issue of Another Man was an absolute cultural reset. From the clear demarcation of a new era with the three blank posts on his Instagram to his first time showing up with a full set of painted nails (yes, they were black, but goddamn it at the time, it was as wild as seeing him in a dress), I can’t even sum up what a shift it was for him and how absolutely feral the fandom went at the time.
And he didn’t just wear a collar in a photoshoot.
He shot three covers. In two of them he wore a collar (once with a leash attached).
The spread was broken into three sections — each one seemingly showing a different aspect of Harry. In two of them, he wears a collar (and leash) multiple times.
Don’t forget the cuffs…
And just to really drive the point home, in the section titled Anything That’s Part Of You, he wore an actual BDSM collar from a company that specializes in fetish gear. And he wore it in 9 out of the 13 photos in that section. Despite changing numerous times.
hey i’m dj crazy times. so enamored with this longwinded string of lyrics from barbara mason’s post-disco electro soul classic another man (1983)
“he was so desirable and it’s gonna be such a waste... you know when you think everything is in place and what you think you have is not what you really have at all because in my case what i thought i had was not an entire whole man but a facsimile thereof! wasn’t the clothing or nothing, you know i’m not...”
the hypnotic, spoken word quality of this run-on sentence about a woman discovering her husband’s affair with another man puts me in a trance.
that little article gemma wrote about harry makes me feel so much maybe its cause i have a little brother too and i can see myself in the things she says as an older sister but it also just reminds you that he's just a person often when hes written about he feels larger than life but hearing things about how he was as a child or in school its like oh he's just a person. another man is probably my fave magazine he's ever done
I totally agree with you! Gemma's writing is so real and heart warming. When you read it you can just see Harry, not this huge popstar but just Harry, this little boy who has such a kind heart, likes to watch romcoms with his sister and can't wait to give his mum a surprise present. Also another reason I think I love it so much is because I admire his relationship with his family so much and it's so beautiful to have the opportunity to see him through the eyes of the people that love him deeply.
Hi Gina! Has Harry ever talked about his religion? I’ve seen many different things about it but most of them don’t add up. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything about it but I might be missing something.
The only time I’ve seen him comment was in Another Man in the interview with Chelsea Handler.
CH: Do you believe in God?
HS: Wow.
CH: I mean, you seem kind of spiritual to me, like hippie spiritual. I didn’t know if you were religious.
HS: I’m glad you said it, I feel like anyone who says, ‘I’m spiritual’ sounds a little wanky. But yeah, I definitely consider myself to be more spiritual than religious. I’m not super tied-in to certain rules but I think it’s naïve to say nothing exists and there’s nothing above us or more powerful than us. I think that’s a little narrow-minded.
CH: Are you one of those people who thinks everything happens for a reason?
HS: I definitely believe in karma. I think ‘everything happens for a reason’ is a difficult one because there’s a lot of shit happening in the world that’s so unfair right now. So it’s hard to look at that stuff and think, ‘Well, everything happens for a reason’. But I definitely think there’s something, that it’s not just us. It’s kind of crazy to think that it’s just us. I’m not saying I believe in aliens, but you know what I mean.
anyway im elmiking tonight so i actually think mike and el should hangout and tell each other the stories of superman and wonder woman respectively and openly be massive gay losers to each other about it