HARRI for Glamcult #143, the DEEPREAL issue
“I’m just a social media manager here,” Harikrishnan Keezhathil Surendran Pillai says with a laugh as I walk into his London studio a few days after his eponymous label,
@harri_ks , captured Fashion Week. Their Instagram account has just crashed, banned for ‘being a bot’ after a sudden burst of posting — the result of returning from a three-month social media detox. HARRI’s startling creations tease proportions and gravity, recently claiming the record for the largest inflatable latex dress ever made. The Kerala-born artist carries two identities: Harri, the person in the studio trying to build a livelihood, and HARRI, the name that moves through a fashion economy obsessed with the outrageous, where spectacle often eclipses the lived reality and skews our perception of it. If his inflatables once stretched our sense of what a body could become, his new collections ask how that same imagination might slip into daily life — how fashion can be both vision and sustenance, both wonder and work.
Read the full interview on glamcult.com
Words by
@evvsh_
Photography by
@emilywhte
All clothing
@harri_ks 
