At home with... Harris Reed

Fashion designer Harris Reed oozes a strong sense of self. His collections, the latest of which is gracing the London Fashion Week catwalk on February 20 under the name Gilded, are celebrations of pride in identity. Pleasingly, his home is an expression of Reed's fabulous, fluid world.

-  AMIRA HASHISH

"You have to stake who you are in a space," he tells me. We are slouched on his deep blue velvet daybed in the small but perfectly formed library of his Holland Park flat. Fromental's travertine silk wall covering cocoons the room. A painting of a golden-winged lion by Timur D'vatz hangs above us and we sink into geometric pillows by Christina Lundsteen.

"A lot of people say I am young to have done so much or to be so self-assured. But I moved home about 28 times before I went to university. I went to so many different schools that I had to become very sure of who I was. So, for my own place, I went all out on the lacquered ceilings and Murano chandeliers."

Reed was brought up in California, the son of English documentary film producer Nick Reed and American artist and fragrance connoisseur Lynette Reed. His sights were set on London since his teenage years when he dreamed of attending Central Saint Martins. He turned those ambitions into a reality and quickly became one of Saint Martins' glittering success stories. While studying, he caught the attention of Harry Styles and Solange and now counts Beyoncé, Adele and Iman as clients. In 2022, aged just 26, he was appointed creative director of French fashion house Nina Ricci.