Harry Styles at the BRIT Awards: harry styles mixes Chanel pinstripe fashion with live 'Aperture' debut
harry styles opened the BRIT Awards in Manchester with the live debut of “Aperture” and arrived on the red carpet in Chanel look 39 from the Métiers d’art 2026 collection. The combination of a carefully chosen womenswear-focused outfit and a full-stage performance underscored the start of his “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally” era.
Harry Styles’s Chanel look: look 39, mint pinstripe shirt and a deliberate shoe moment
On the red carpet and into his stage set, Styles wore a black-and-white bouclé pinstripe jacket with matching trousers paired with a pale mint pinstripe cotton shirt—identified as look 39 from Chanel’s Métiers d’art 2026 collection. His stylist Harry Lambert helped secure Chanel for the look, which the artist kept on for the Brits stage moment that followed.
The outfit landed after a week of speculation about a womenswear-focused red-carpet moment and a “very specific shoe moment, ” with early daydreaming centered on what might follow the ballet pump. The fashion rollout around this era has leaned into colour-saturated pieces such as a mustard Miu Miu jumper and a Prada bowling pin shirt and tie, and a fondness for accessories often described as feminine—examples include mint-green, bow-bedecked Dior mules and Elton John–adjacent sunglasses sourced from General Eyewear Vintage.
Background fashion chatter mentioned recent runway moments—among them a Bella Hadid–type treatment of a Prada runway and Maria Grazia Chiuri bringing back Karl Lagerfeld collars at Fendi during shows in Milan—and even speculative turns toward designers such as Jonathan Anderson for Dior ready-to-wear (his sophomore women’s show is in Paris on 3 March). Another line of speculation pointed to rare archival Prada finds tied to Lambert’s eBay ambassadorship before Chanel ultimately clinched the red-carpet deal.
First live performance of “Aperture” set off the awards with a comic barbershop opening
The performance opened the awards show on Saturday night and marked Styles’s first performance at the ceremony in nearly three years. The staged opening featured host Jack Whitehall in a barbershop reading on his phone that Styles would be taking a break from music in 2023, then cut to a montage of Whitehall pining after Styles in various iterations—mistaking a jog for a chance meeting and embracing Styles’s wax figure at Madame Tussauds—before he finally arrived at the BRIT Awards for the set.
Bleachers, dancers in snail T-shirts and a gospel-backed finale
Styles began the live debut of “Aperture” perched on a set of bleachers, flanked by dozens of dancers wearing black shades and T-shirts printed with snails. Dressed for the stage in high-waisted dress pants and a shirt with a tie, he led the choreography, then strode down the stage to join a backing band and gospel singers. The dancers moved to meet him in the middle of the venue for a finale, surrounding him and waving their hands in synchronicity.
This was the first time Styles has showcased his vocal work live in his “Aperture” era, and the decision to keep the Chanel look onstage tied the fashion moment directly to the performance.
Album timeline and one-night release show at Manchester’s Co-op Live
Styles’s fourth studio album, “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, ” will debut on March 6, and its lead single “Aperture” was released Jan. 22, debuting at No. 1 on both U. S. and U. K. singles charts. Styles has said the new record will be synthesizer-heavy, citing inspirations that include LCD Soundsystem and his time living in Berlin. He will perform a one-night-only album release show at Manchester’s Co-op Live on March 6.
