Harry Styles and Taylor Russell: A Fashionable Duo Embodies The Row’s Charm

At the intersection of exclusivity and omnipresence in fashion, Harry Styles and Taylor Russell epitomize the allure of The Row.

Omnipresence and exclusivity stand as opposite ends of a rope that binds the fashion industry together. It’s a dichotomy perhaps endemic to the very notion of desirability, as luxury brands strive to be both inaccessible and ubiquitous simultaneously. Few understand this better than the Olsen twins, who forbade attendees at their Fall/Winter 2024 runway show from capturing and sharing content from the catwalk on their iPhones. Instead, they were handed notepads and Japanese pencils—analogue, intellectual tools—to jot down their thoughts.

It’s fortunate, then, that several of the world’s most photographed celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence, Kendall Jenner, and Zoë Kravitz, have become unofficial ambassadors for The Row‘s designs. The Olsens may not want to follow traditional advertising avenues or stoop to the TikTok content mill, but when Harry Styles steps out carrying the brand’s Margaux bag—as he did in Paris last February and once again yesterday afternoon in New York—little else is needed. The media value of their garments being seen on the right person (and garnering an article like this) is perhaps sufficient. It’s about taste, which is, doing less.

Styles was captured by paparazzi on the steps of a Brownstone—spare shoes spilling out of his oversized weekend bag in the style of Miu Miu‘s Spring/Summer 2024 collection—with his girlfriend Taylor Russell, who sported The Row’s soft leather loafers and was wrapped in Loewe bags (a Flamenco Clutch and a Puzzle Fold tote). The actor is, after all, an ambassador for the Spanish house. A “it” couple with their “it” bags, it’s a seemingly curated—if not destined—photograph to end up on moodboard Instagram accounts like this: evidence, perhaps, that there is often an intense presence in being absent.