Looking at the cover of Harry Styles’ new album, one detail immediately caught our eye: the knit T-shirt designed by Patrick Carroll, chosen for the cover of Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. A piece that reads like an apparently simple garment, yet hints at something more.

As he explains in this Vanity Fair interview, Patrick Carroll’s journey began far from fashion. In his small studio, knitwear is never just a finished product, but the outcome of a slow, almost meditative process—made up of trials, errors, and intuition. The knit T-shirt on the cover perfectly embodies this approach: an essential construction, yet dense with intention, where texture and structure matter as much as the final form.

It’s no surprise, then, that alongside his work as a knitwear designer and artist, Carroll has also pursued a career as a writer. His texts often return to themes of time, queerness, and pop culture, as if writing and knitting were two sides of the same method: observing, layering, and leaving room for imperfection. This dual practice shows just how difficult his work is to pin down—and also how, from a certain distance, it’s surprisingly coherent.

Harry Styles’ stylist, Harry Lambert, was the one who chose this piece—and it’s not so much a straightforward collaboration as a deeper need to create something meaningful beyond the usual dynamics of the fashion world.

Patrick Carroll’s work remains deliberately human, rooted in the intimate space of his studio and in an idea of fashion that never separates making from thinking. It’s precisely in this sum of details, gestures, and words that his language takes shape—capable of reaching a global album cover without losing its authenticity.