Harry Styles Brings Disco to the BRIT Awards and Kept His Chanel Look Onstage
harry styles opened the BRIT Awards on Saturday night with the live debut of “Aperture, ” performing on a set of bleachers and keeping his red‑carpet Chanel look on for the stage — a groomed, disco‑tinged moment that also previewed his March 6 album, Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally.
How the BRITs performance began
The show kicked off with host Jack Whitehall in a barbershop reading on his phone that Styles would be taking a break from music in 2023, followed by a montage of Whitehall imagining encounters with Styles — while jogging and embracing Styles’ wax figure at Madame Tussauds — before Whitehall reached the BRIT Awards at Manchester’s Co‑op Live in time for the performance.
Harry Styles’s live debut of “Aperture”
Styles performed “Aperture” live for the first time in nearly three years, starting the number atop bleachers flanked by dozens of dancers wearing black shades and T‑shirts printed with snails. Dressed in high‑waisted dress pants and a shirt with a tie, he led choreography, then strutted down the stage to join a backing band and gospel singers; the dancers met him in the middle of the venue for a finale in which they waved their hands in synchronicity.
The Chanel look: look 39 from Métiers d’art 2026
For both red carpet and stage, Styles wore look 39 from Chanel’s Métiers d’art 2026 collection: a black‑and‑white bouclé pinstripe jacket with matching trousers and a pale mint pinstripe cotton shirt. His stylist, Harry Lambert, had been expected to deliver a womenswear‑forward shoe moment after the week of rumoured options; designers discussed in that runup included Jonathan Anderson for Dior (his sophomore women’s show is in Paris on 3 March) and archival Prada, but Chanel clinched the deal.
Fashion notes, accessories and the wider rollout
The fashion rollout around the Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally era has been colour‑saturated — from a mustard Miu Miu jumper to a Prada bowling pin shirt and tie — and humour‑filled, with Elton John–adjacent sunglasses sourced by General Eyewear Vintage and a particular penchant for accessories deemed “feminine, ” including mint‑green, bow‑bedecked Dior mules. The album artwork, shot by Johnny Dufort, is disco‑ball bathed. The red‑carpet decision to keep the Chanel look onstage signalled a move away from feather boas and harlequin jumpsuits toward French‑girl flats and a continued ballet‑pump influence.
Tour dates, TV appearances and festival curation
harry styles will release his fourth studio album, Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally, on March 6; its lead single, “Aperture, ” was released Jan. 22 and debuted at No. 1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the U. K. singles chart. After a one‑night‑only album release show at Manchester’s Co‑op Live on March 6, he will begin the Together, Together world tour on May 16 with 10 shows in Amsterdam. The tour includes 12 nights in London — where he will break two Wembley Stadium records — four shows in São Paulo, six nights in Mexico City, 30 shows at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, three nights in Melbourne and two in Sydney, with multi‑night residencies across seven cities.
Other recent milestones and next appearances
Styles last performed at the BRIT Awards in 2023, where he took home four trophies for Harry’s House. He is slated to host and serve as musical guest on Saturday Night Live on March 14, and he has been tapped to curate Meltdown at London’s Southbank Centre, performing as a headliner at the festival scheduled for June 11–21. Olivia Dean and Lola Young lead this year’s BRIT nominees with five nods each.
Additional fashion context mentioned in the runup to the BRITs included the Bella Hadid‑ification of the Prada runway at Milan Fashion Week and Maria Grazia Chiuri bringing back Karl Lagerfeld collars at Fendi. Other related headlines noted alongside the fashion dispatchs were “The Best‑Dressed Stars At The 2026 Brit Awards, ” “Everything You Need To Know About London Fashion Week AW26, ” “The Key Spring/Summer 2026 Fashion Trends You Can Already Shop, ” and “Every Star On The Front Row At New York Fashion Week. ”
Next on the calendar: the March 6 album release and Manchester release show, followed by Styles’ May 16 tour start and his March 14 Saturday Night Live appearance.
