Harry Styles and Sam Smith Got Weird at the BRIT Awards
Harry’s outfit made him look rather like a fancy Pomeranian whose owner refers to it as her “child.”

MAJA SMIEJKOWSKA
Logic tells us that musicians are somehow even weirder than actors, who are themselves some of the weirdest people on earth, so it stands to reason that red carpet fashion at music awards shows is many times weirder than the couture you generally spot at the Oscars.
Fresh off his somewhat-baffling Album of the Year win at the Grammys, UK heartthrob Harry Styles pulled up to Saturday’s BRIT Awards wearing a black velvet suit which flared at the hips and below the knee.
His pièce de résistance, though, was the enormous black velvet rosette affixed to his neck, which made him look rather like a fancy Pomeranian whose owner refers to it as her “child.”
Styles has grown rather attached to 70s-flavored sartorial kitsch over the last couple of years, in keeping with his sexy-yet-safe image, and honestly, the results have always been middling. It’s hard to believe that any of his looks are outfits he’d pick out himself.

Sam Smith poses while attending the Brit Awards at the O2 Arena in London, Britain, February 11, 2023.
REUTERS/Maja Smiejkowska
Also pointedly making a splash was Styles’ fellow British crooner Sam Smith, who, continuing their pattern of wearing over-the-top fetish gear to match their racy single “Unholy,” appeared wearing an inflatable black latex suit by the brand Harri that gave them enormous shoulders and giant protruding appendages that flare from their hips to their ankles.
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Sorry Sam, but there’s only one Lady Gaga.
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