Fashion award-winner Harry Styles’ greatest looks – in pictures

A youthful One Direction appear on The X Factor in 2010 working an unthreatening 'trainers, blazers and the occasional scarf' look Photograph: Ken McKay/Ken McKay/Rex Features

A cynical attempt by corporate sponsors to rebrand the band as ‘Onesie Direction’ fortunately came to nothing Photograph: Rex Features

One Direction with mentor Simon Cowell on The X Factor, December 2010. Harry Styles watchers deem this to be the official moment when Styles' hair, which grows in direct proportion to the band's fame, evolved from 'bouffant' to 'voluminous' Photograph: Ken McKay/TalkbackThames/Rex Features

On stage in 2012, the hair took a brief turn for the Susan Boyle. Mortified fans politely looked the other way Photograph: Mark Holloway/Redferns

Leather boots, sunglasses, retro T-shirt and ‘just got out of bed’ hair can only mean one thing: there are some seriously ill-advised tattoos on the horizon… Photograph: Troy Rizzo/Getty Images

Thanks to some shonky tattoos and judiciously placed gaffer tape, Styles is finally free to live out his fantasies of being a much less successful indie-rock celebrity
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Styles wore a chic Burberry love-heart shirt to the premiere of One Direction: This is Us 3D in August this year. The press, however, were more interested in finding out whether the singer was wearing makeup or not
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