How Harry Styles Became the Most Watched Man in Fashion: His Style Evolution

Before he was the first man to appear solo on the cover of American Vogue, Harry Edward Styles was a teenager working the register at the W Mandeville Bakery in Holmes Chapel, Cheshire—a village so small that when fans started showing up by the thousands a decade later, the local council had to hire tour guides to manage them. Born Feb. 1, 1994, in Redditch, Worcestershire, Styles grew up singing lead in a school band called White Eskimo. At 16, his mother signed him up for The X Factor without telling him.