HARRIS REED AND TREY GASKIN

‘We want to live our lives as powerful individuals’

friends and collaborators Harris Reed and Trey Gaskin first met as students at a sustainability talk Stella Mccartney gave at LCF. ‘I remember seeing this beautiful person across the room with a confidence that just blew me away. I thought, “I need to get to know this person more,” Harris, creative director of the eponymous brand Harris Reed, recounts. Trey, a model and the host behind what Vogue called ‘fashion’s funniest podcast’, OTT, was equally impressed. ‘I was like, “Who is this glamazon with really good hair?” We instantly hit it off.’

The two have emerged as not only rising fashion stars, but vocal advocates for the non-binary creative community. Harris’s hugely popular and often viral social media portraits of them both wearing the designer’s sprawling, dramatic hats, flounciful blouses and bell-shaped trousers allow an under-represented community to not only feel seen, but glamorously so, free of any political subtext.

‘Me and Trey both really embody this idea of living our lives to the most fabulous degree of fantasy, bringing back the passion and excitement of the fantasy of fashion,’ says Harris, whose fanbase spans a starry mix of influencers, from Harry Styles to Solange Knowles and Gucci’s Alessandro Michele. Both Trey and Harris are cautiously optimistic about fashion’s future. ‘I don’t think the fashion industry can ever go back to the way it was before. I would like to hope that fashion is embracing a spirit of openness,’ says Harris. ‘But I do think it’s important to make sure that real change is taking place – and not at a superficial and performative level,’ Trey adds.