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⭐️ And what is this?? Bonus features include Sam and Cait’s original auditions?? Plural? Not just the Reckoning scene but their actual individual auditions?? I mean I still want them to reveal the kissing tape but I’ll take this too.

In November 2021 Harry Styles unveiled Pleasing. Described on its website as a "lifestyle label", the main focus of the pop superstar's brand has been cosmetics and its initial drop consisted of a range of serums, lip balms and pearlescent nail polishes, which came with names such as “Granny's Pearls” and “Pearly Tops”.

For the second Pleasing drop, which is available to shop now, Styles gave his products a psychedelic twist and the collection, which is titled “Shroom Bloom”, comprises acidic nail polishes in fresh sprout green and bold, ripe apple red, as well as hyaluronic-boosted “acid drops".

Styles also enlisted the help of British singer-songwriter Mick Fleetwood, who Styles has often cited as an inspiration for his own sound, as the face of Pleasing's new campaign. He was dressed by Styles' long-term stylist Harry Lambert in a custom look by British designer Steven Stokey-Daley, who is best-known for his whimsical, romantic aesthetic.

The Liverpudlian designer was first given the nod by Styles and Lambert back in 2020, when the singer rocked one of his embroidered and oversized, linen shirts and ultra-baggy wool trousers in his music video for "Golden."

For Fleetwood, Stokey-Daley created a set of pyjamas that feature an all-over, enlarged zebra print. “Dressing Mick Fleetwood came about through a personal conversation between myself, Harry Lambert and Harry Styles," Stokey-Daley exclusively tells GQ from his East London studio. “They gave me a preview of the products that have just released and they asked if I'd be up for designing a unique look for him - they had a very clear idea of what they wanted," he continues. "Obviously I said yes, as it had been great working with them previously and I'd also grown up listening to Fleetwood Mac, so it felt super natural to design a look for him.

“For Harry this collaboration was all about the return to the psychedelic Sixties era,” Stokey-Daley continues. “I was thinking about how I could apply what I do with SS Daley to that concept. Recently I’ve been really obsessed with David Hicks' interiors - they're extremely British, and very influenced by the Sixties and Seventies, which fits with the vibe Harry wanted. Hicks uses a lot of in-your-face zebra print rugs and carpets, and so I applied the aesthetics of his eccentric furniture to the outfit.”

Stokey-Daley had seen the greens and oranges used on the products and thought it would all tie together nicely in the campaign if he presented the Hicks-esque print in hazy lilac and violet. “The zebra is purposely blown up big and is consciously skewed. In turn it could be seen as a psychedelic optical art print, again fitting in with the vibe Harry Styles wanted to achieve,” he explains. "At the time I was doing my AW/22 collection, which was based on the concept of inside-outside living, and this influenced the pyjama-esque outfit I created for Mick.”