Harry Styles paired his new fashionable mullet with old trusty sneakers

If you sensed a shift in the universe today, it was probably for a reason: Harry Styles sat front row at a London Fashion Week show for the first time in a decade, breaking a streak of endorsements for designer Steven Stokey-Daley’s SS Daley brand, a favorite of the pop star and his longtime stylist Harry Lambert.

Sitting next to FashionWith Anna Wintour and Hamish Bowles in the front row, Styles dressed for the occasion in a custom SS Daley navy set—featuring cream detailing and a knitted strawberry appliqué—teamed with the designer’s “Cochrane” white ribbed tank top and a worn-in pair of black Vans Authentic lace-ups. Can you hear that distant voice pleading for Vans to return? It just got a little louder.

Harry Styles attends the SS Daley fashion show during London Fashion Week on Friday.

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Harry Styles has been an avid Vans wearer for years, even in his more haute-minded eras. He wore platform Vans Authentics with a Molly Goddard peasant blouse and jeans during the cover photo shoot for his most recent LP Harry’s house (he swapped them out for a pair of dainty ballerinas in the official artwork) and continued to wear the classic sneakers throughout that cycle of fashion-forward albums, including when he wore a striped JW Anderson jumpsuit to perform Today in 2022. He’ll occasionally swap out the Vans for a pair of Sambas, but it’s a silhouette he keeps returning to.

Styles, dressed in Vans and a JW Anderson jumpsuit, with Al Roker on the Today show in May 2022.

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In contrast to the signature shoes, Styles rocked a new hairdo. After shaving off his signature curls late last year, the pop star appears to have grown out his short back-and-sides crop into a neat little fashion mullet: ingrown ends slicked up at the nape of his neck, the top slicked back in a faux-hawk pose. The trendy mini-mullet has been making the rounds in the Hollywood heartthrob community, and has already caught the likes of Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, and Drew Starkey in its viscous clutches.