Harry Styles Is Wearing a Knitted T-Shirt on His New Album Cover. Patrick Carroll Designed It.
A fashion designer friend once told me that a slogan T-shirt is the most accessible entry point into fashion, something Harry Styles and his stylist, Harry Lambert, seem to acutely understand. Consider some recent high-fashion success stories: There was Jonathan Anderson’s “I Told Ya” shirt, first made for Challengers then sold through Loewe, or Conner Ives’s ultra-viral, moment-defining “Protect the Dolls” top first shown on the runway in London in February of last year, after which it took over the internet and then wardrobes of celebrities including Troye Sivan, Pedro Pascal, Tilda Swinton, and more. Enter Patrick Carroll, a 36-year-old multi-hyphenate living in Los Angeles. Carroll, who grew up in the Bay Area and spent his 20s in New York before returning to California to establish his practice as an artist, was enlisted by Lambert late last year to create a run of tees for Styles for what was then an undisclosed project. He discovered, at the same time as the rest of the world, that Styles was wearing one of the tees in the …
