“Very selfishly, I was like, this is my opportunity to design for myself 15 years ago,” Harry Lambert previously told British Vogue of working on his inaugural collaboration with Zara, coined Cutie Chaos, at the end of last year. “The high street was really important to me for discovering my own style.” Now, the super-stylist – who counts Emma Corrin and Harry Styles as clients – is back with another instalment, entitled Cutie Circus.
It’s no secret that Lambert is a fan of theme parks – “whenever I’m away for work, I always try and slip a visit in!” – and for Cutie Circus he harked back to his childhood; of being brought up by the seaside and going to arcades. “I find these spaces that are created for joy and for fun such fascinating places,” he explains. “I think fashion brings me so much joy as well, so these two worlds coming together felt appropriate.
” Much like the avant-garde looks he pulls for his styling roster – Corrin’s glossy JW Anderson goldfish dress and Styles’s on-stage looks come to mind – Cutie Circus explores colour, patterns and prints in a bold yet considered way. “It was clear people were really inspired by the graphics and the sense of nostalgia,” Lambert says of building on the narrative he curated last season. Vintage is at the heart of his wardrobe – when we speak, he reminisces about a suede Prada coat he thrifted in LA, “there was a little bit of white paint on the sleeve so I got them to take another.