Photograph: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for HS Styles performs in New York City in 2021.

Rumours of a solo career were circulating, and Styles was going through his “Jagger period”, wearing black Saint Laurent suits, Chelsea boots and leonine hair tamed by bright bandanas – fashion filtered through NME rather than GQ. Harry met Harry around the time of One Direction’s 2014 album, Four. It’s an intimate space! I’m aware that a lot of the attention I get is because of him, but I want to be very careful. I’m often the last person they see before they go on stage. You have to remember I am there in the most intimate times with people I work with. “When it comes to questions about Harry, I just consider our relationship too private to go too deep. Getting him to talk about Styles is like getting blood from a stone. W alking down the narrow corridor towards stylist Harry Lambert’s studio, I can’t be the first person to wonder if Harry Styles – Lambert’s most famous client – has trod the same blue carpet.