Harry turns 27!

Harry Styles birthday is here! He is turning 27 and this has inspired us to take a look back at his life, loves, music and fashion that has turned him into one of the most well-know and loved male icons of the current age.



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2010: The makings of a star

Harry auditioned for the X Factor in April 2010 and wowed the judges with the classic song, “Isn’t she lovely?”. In July of the same year his journey in the competition came to an end at the show’s bootcamp but music mentor, Simon Cowell, allowed him and other solo acts to join together, creating the group that we all know as One Direction and entering as a group act in the show. They came third overall.



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2010: His first public love interest

At the start of his fame, he raised suspicions and eyebrows with his generation gap relationship with Caroline Flack who was in her 30s. Harry was 17.



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2020: His respect for the devastating news of Caroline’s death

Interrupting our timeline and jumping forward to 2020, Harry Styles paid tribute to his ex-girlfriend Caroline at the Brit Awards in London on February 18. She had died at just age 40. Harry paid his respects to Caroline at the award ceremony by wearing a black ribbon on his left lapel as a sign of mourning.



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2011: Up All Night

Back to young Harry… After the show, One Direction went on the X Factor Live UK Tour with the other finalists from the program. They signed a music contract with Psyco and started recording their first studio album, entitled “Up All Night” in January 2011 which went on to be released in September



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2012: A ‘thing’

His love life continued to spark interest. In 2012 he had a short fling with ‘Inbetweeners’ star, Emily Atack. The relationship didn’t last and they both agreeably reported that they simply ‘went their own way’ after their ‘thing’.



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2012: Haylor

Harry and Taylor. Haylor. Everyone knows Harry Styles and Taylor Swift were an item and constantly in the public eye. Their relationship began in late 2012 and then they broke up only a few months later. They both called the relationship ‘a learning experience’ and actually Taylor didn’t date for a long time after the break up. Both have written songs about each other, or so people believe… Or are these songs written about other people?



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2013: Don’t you wish your girlfriend was…?

For those of you who have noticed, Harry tends to date the slightly older woman. He really raised some eyebrows when he dated former Pussycat Dolls lead singer, Nicole Scherzinger, in the months following his break up with Taylor. She was 35 at the time, compared to Harry who was not yet 20 years old.



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2013-2015: The Kendall ‘Krush’

What perhaps a lot of people don’t know, he had an on-off relationship with beauty Kendall Jenner over the period of a few years. Another fizzled-out relationship. He seems to have had a few of those.



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2013: Styles’ Style

Styles was becoming an icon of, well, style. At this point in his ‘style’ evolution, he liked to go for a bold print. Here he is wearing a bold heart print shirt at the premiere of One Direction’s movie, “This Is Us,” in August 2013.



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2016: The end of 1D?

Professionally speaking, Harry Styles swiftly became the nation’s favourite member of the band and One Direction went on to produce five albums and at the beginning of 2016 they went into a never ending hiatus.



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2017: Sign of the Times

Harry signed with Columbia Records in 2016 as a solo artist. In 2017 he released his first single called “Sign of the Times” which reached number one in the charts. In the same year, he released his first hit solo album, Harry Styles, which received huge critical acclaim.



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2017: Harry found a French fille

He finally had a lasting relationship (!) and dated Camille Rowe for a full year from mid-2017. Post break up he wrote the song ‘Cherry’ about their struggles to end the relationship and it actually includes one of her voicemail messages in her mother tongue, French. Roughly it is translated, “Hello! Are you asleep? Oh, I’m sorry… Well, no… Nope, it’s not funny… Well then… We went to the beach and now we-”. A chilling, personal end to a track.



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2017: Mr Styles becomes an actor

He is absolutely no stranger to the film camera either. You can watch the documentary he made in 2017 called Harry Styles: Behind the Album. It was a big year for Harry as he also made his first movie appearance in the Christopher Nolan film, ‘Dunkirk’.



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2017: Drastic Dragons

Turning more and more into the fashion icon we know, Harry wore purple silk trousers with embroidered dragons in May 2017 as he was leaving a gig in London. He certainly turned some heads.



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2017: NYC Radio City class

In New York City, September 2017, Harry Styles performed at Radio City. What an iconic stage for a young and upcoming icon. He definitely stands out here in his red, metallic flower suit, matching the formal, classical setting. He accessorised with Gucci loafers and his guitar, attracting attention as a complete star in the making.



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2017: Known worldwide

Harry Styles ‘Live on Tour’ went worldwide between September 2017 and July 2018. He was rapidly becoming a household name from singing, acting and even composing, having also composed the song for Love, Simon film.



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2018: Harry the model

2018 – his modelling career started at Gucci. He fits in well at Gucci who proclaim they are ‘outrageous and wearable’ and was rightly chosen to be an ambassador of their tailored campaign.



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2019: Number one album

In 2019 he released the song, ‘Lights Up’, the first single of his second album, ‘Fine Line’, which finally hit the shelves in December of the same year. The album produced 4 more successful hit singles and reached number 1 on the American Billboard. Harry was the second member of One Direction to have that claim, after his band-mate Zayn Malik.



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2019: Harry on a wire

Harry appeared in The Late Late Show in December 2019 and pretty much everyone who watched it was staring at the screen with their mouths wide open. Harry, attached to a zip wire, was swinging across the busy streets of LA whilst singing his songs. This arial concert created a lot of hype and was a definite first for Mr Styles and the show.



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2019: The boy with the pearl earring

Styles like you’ve never seen him before. When he co-chaired the 2019 Met Gala, he donned a black jumpsuit with a see-through top and just the one pearl earring. An interesting little-known fact, he got his ear pierced especially for the occasion.



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2020: The boy with the pearl necklace

Another well-known photo of Mr Styles. Here he is at SiriusXM Studios in March 2020. It is clear he is pushing boundaries and becoming, quite simply, an icon. Sporting a green trouser, frilly blouse and pearls.



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2020: Watermelon Sugar High

Watermelon Sugar High from his second album, released in 2020 with a 1970s inspired video.
About the song, Harry said, “It’s kind of about that initial, I guess, euphoria of when you start seeing someone or sleeping with someone or just like being around someone and you have that kind of excitement about them,” according to PopBuzz.



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2021: Harry and Olivia

Harry Styles appeared in Olivia Wilde’s new film and, as we all know, they got to know each other and started dating. Seen holding hands at a wedding confirmed suspicions. This could be a lasting relationship. It certainly fulfils Harry’s interest in women – she is beautiful, successful and ten years his senior.



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Harry Styles at 27

So it seems Harry Styles’ birthday has allowed us to really celebrate the fascinating young man he has become. Singer, composer and writer. Actor, lyricist and drummer. A friend: respected and loved. Model, designer, trend-setter icon and Vogue magazine’s front cover of December 2020. We can’t wait to see what he will do next.



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