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The conniptions about Harry Styles in a dress are the desperate cry of losers in a culture war | Van Badham

The Trump project they championed now lies in smoky ruins, overrun by an extraordinary coalition of liberals, leftists and those who’ve just had enough
Harry Styles on the cover of Vogue’s December 2020 issue Photograph: Tyler Mitchell

Harry Styles is a 26-year-old popstar. He’s talented, unfathomably famous, worldly and charming. In Styles, a combination of youth, confidence and the aesthetics of the moment have fused into a compelling beauty of great commercial appeal. Unsurprisingly, he has just appeared on the cover of Vogue. He is wearing a ruffled Gucci ballgown, under a velvet jacket, inflating a balloon.

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