For Harris Reed, fluid trend and sweetness encompasses “more than just gender fluidity.”
The London-based designer, who has dressed the likes of Harry Styles, Solange and Troye Sivan, has teamed with MAC Cosmetics on a Renaissance-inspired make-up assortment. The collaboration contains three lipsticks, two cream colour bases, 9 eyeshadows and a kohl eyeliner, all of which are available in gilded packaging, with costs starting from $20 to $35. It releases on-line in North America on Feb. 18.
A Central Saint Martins graduate, Reed has turn out to be recognized for his or her trend designs that promote their “message of fluidity.”
“I don’t want to just create something pretty, something beautiful, I want to create something with a message [of] fluidity,” Reed stated in an interview with WWD.
In addition to their MAC collaboration, Reed is making ready for his or her debut runway present.
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MAC marks Reed’s first magnificence partnership. They described the gathering as a software meant for use by customers for self-exploration and discovery.
“It’s for everyone, not just men, not just women,” Reed stated.
Despite efforts in trend and sweetness to be extra inclusive of the LGBTQ neighborhood, transgender women and men and gender-nonconforming individuals, particularly these of colour, stay absent from each industries’ highest tiers. Reed is a part of an rising set of designers pushing for an all-encompassing sort of fluidity.
“I say usually ‘fluid beauty’ or ‘fluid fashion’ because I love the idea of fluidity as more than just gender fluidity,” Reed stated. “It’s universal, the concept that you can live a fluid life, an authentic life, you are whoever you want to be, you don’t conform in any sense of the word.”
Reed famous quite a few upcoming collaborations and tasks deliberate for this 12 months — all of the whereas insisting they’ve “nothing fabulous” in retailer for 2021 — that features their “first proper runway show.”
“I say runway in air quotes,” Reed stated. “It will be my version of what I think runway should be in a post-COVID-19 world.”
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