HARRIS REED

HARRIS REED SEPTEMBER 2025 COLLECTION: THE AVIARY

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The Harris Reed collections have always inhabited their own world, and for the brands tenth season, the Victorian gothic architecture

and interior maximalism of the St Pancras hotel is a fitting scene for ‘The Aviary’. The contradictory notions of containment and

freedom are explored; the confines of cage-like silhouettes are contrasted with the liberation of wing like structures giving a sense of

the models soaring, flitting birdlike around the show space, displaying their plumage in a cacophony of colour.

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For Reed, the designs always begin with the silhouette, exaggerating and embellishing the human form and playing with proportions

through corsetry, caging, and an excess of drapery and texture. A tailored suit with flared trousers built out at the hips and a corseted

jacket cinching impossibly at the waist and flaring wide at the shoulders works to completely transform the body’s proportions,

whilst corsets branch out from the core of the body, extending like wings. The brand’s signature crinolines are employed to create

voluminous mermaid skirts before being exposed and contorted, as if caught mid dance, and finally reworked into a form of chest-

plate armour in red grosgrain ribbon.

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Having previously collaborated with luxury wallpaper experts Fromental by repurposing their archive silks, Reed was keen to

explore their artistry with textiles further and collaborate on bespoke fabrics for the collection. Archival Nottingham lace was the

inspiration for a new landscaped lace print featured on a blue duchess bodice with chenille silk embroidery, and in pink silk on a fan

shaped corset top with curved sleeves. Lilac and chartreuse duchess satins were gestural painted with a wisteria design and gilded

with gold tendrils and fine silk embroidery on skirts and trims, and abstract tortoiseshell and tiger patterns were hand painted by fine

artists and printed on to layers of silk, chiffon and duchess creating a contrast in scale and intricacy. Existing Fromental designs were

hand painted, hand embroidered, and gold leafed across the collection, whilst velvets appear either brushed and bruised, or as fluid

devoré achieving an overwhelming richness of texture.

ENDS.

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With special thanks to:

Musical Director:Martin Green | Musical Production: Richard Torry | Beauty: Make-Up Look designed by Sofia Tilbury using

Charlotte Tilbury Beauty & Skincare | Hair: Ali Pirzadeh @ Streeters | Nails: Simone Cummings | Casting: Nachum Shonn |

Movement Direction: Simon Donnellon @ New School | Production: FAMILY | Footwear: Harris Reed X ROKER | Fabrics:

Fromental | Venue: Gothic Bar, Autograph Collection

Sponsors: Charlotte Tilbury, Royal Salute, Fromental | Harris Reed Team: Phoebe Briggs, Hannah Sheridan, Rachel Wu, Brandon

Tan, Phoebe Ward, Coco Corbisiero, Aoife Gray, Kuan-Chieh Chiang, James Walker, Vivian Li, Katie Timothy, Emile Braibant, Luke

Hammond, Matthew Andrews

Thank you to: Nancy Oakley and all at Purple PR, Lynette Reed, Nick Reed, Eitan Senerman, Elli Jafari, Jenine McKay, Rachel

Sinclair, Grace Horigan, and all at Fromental; Tim Butcher, Lizzie Deshayes, Helena Payne, Milly Marsden, Daisy Cooper

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​Photo Credit: Suleika Mueller

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Samples can be requested at PURPLE PR