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WHAT’S IT TO YA?
Saint Harris is a fashion creative and content creator whose work is deeply rooted in football culture, shaped by a journey that brought him back to the game in an unexpected way. After stepping away from football at a young age, he eventually reconnected with it through creativity, using fashion as his entry point into the culture that surrounds the sport. Over time, he’s built a distinct voice by sharing his perspective on styling, identity, and self-expression, growing into someone who not only interprets football through fashion but also actively contributes to how it’s experienced off the pitch.
What is your first football memory?
I have the perfect first memory of football. I was playing peewee football, and somebody tackled me. I remember getting up and leaving the field that day, and I told my dad I never want to play football again. It took me some years to find my way back. I played other sports, but now as I’ve grown older, it’s become a full circle moment where I’m now fortunate and able to style professional athletes within the space, as well as learn and explore more and play football just with my friends and my community.
You mentioned styling athletes. Can you tell us more about your work in fashion?
I would say that content creation has definitely pushed me into the world I am in now. The specific work I do is fashion content: inspiring people to wear outfits a certain way, teaching people how my mind works around fashion, and sharing how I perceive the world of fashion. Specifically with football, whether it’s styling jerseys on myself or building my world around the idea of football and styling professional athletes, it has all come full circle. That’s how my life and my career intertwined with the sport.
What is your first football memory?
I have the perfect first memory of football. I was playing peewee football, and somebody tackled me. I remember getting up and leaving the field that day, and I told my dad I never want to play football again. It took me some years to find my way back. I played other sports, but now as I’ve grown older, it’s become a full circle moment where I’m now fortunate and able to style professional athletes within the space, as well as learn and explore more and play football just with my friends and my community.
You mentioned styling athletes. Can you tell us more about your work in fashion?
I would say that content creation has definitely pushed me into the world I am in now. The specific work I do is fashion content: inspiring people to wear outfits a certain way, teaching people how my mind works around fashion, and sharing how I perceive the world of fashion. Specifically with football, whether it’s styling jerseys on myself or building my world around the idea of football and styling professional athletes, it has all come full circle. That’s how my life and my career intertwined with the sport.
How do you see fashion and football relating to one another?
For me, they go hand in hand. From the very beginning, there’s always—no matter what niche or corner of the world you’re in—there are always pioneers and trailblazers. And going back in times from Johan Cruyff and now going to the days where fashion really started to blow up, especially with the introduction of social media, looking at someone like Hector Bellerin, and then going back and getting players from archives, like Balotelli when he was first coming up and David Beckham, those players started and trailblazed the path of being someone seen as stylish in regards to football.
And now, as time has gone on and social media has become so important recently, that side of athletes and what they do outside of football has become so important. And for a lot of athletes, style is very important, as is how they’re perceived outside of the pitch. So that’s where it started, and now so many people build their lives around the intersection of fashion of football.
There are so many different designers who solely work on building football gear based on deconstructed jerseys, stitching and sewing jerseys and unique patterns, or even just being a jersey designer themselves. So it’s a world that slowly but surely is continuing to get more recognized.
For me, they go hand in hand. From the very beginning, there’s always—no matter what niche or corner of the world you’re in—there are always pioneers and trailblazers. And going back in times from Johan Cruyff and now going to the days where fashion really started to blow up, especially with the introduction of social media, looking at someone like Hector Bellerin, and then going back and getting players from archives, like Balotelli when he was first coming up and David Beckham, those players started and trailblazed the path of being someone seen as stylish in regards to football.
And now, as time has gone on and social media has become so important recently, that side of athletes and what they do outside of football has become so important. And for a lot of athletes, style is very important, as is how they’re perceived outside of the pitch. So that’s where it started, and now so many people build their lives around the intersection of fashion of football.
There are so many different designers who solely work on building football gear based on deconstructed jerseys, stitching and sewing jerseys and unique patterns, or even just being a jersey designer themselves. So it’s a world that slowly but surely is continuing to get more recognized.
What drew you to the S.C Corinthians kit you’re wearing?
I love unique jerseys. Not every unique jersey is a good jersey, but something with Corinthians, they really take time and effort when it comes to how they design their jerseys and how they want to be perceived, even from a lifestyle perspective. So even with me, what I’m wearing right now, this kit is just the perfect blend of such simple colours and such a simple design, but it works perfectly. And yeah, I love this jersey. I try my best to style it whenever I can.
What does the future hold for Saint Harris?
I definitely want to share more of my personality going forward. A lot of people know me—or a lot of people recognize me—but they don’t actually know me. So I want to start building out that story more, on top of the image that I’ve been able to develop online and the perspective and the inspiration I’ve been able to give people.
Where I see things being in the future is more blurring between different sections and sectors of culture. We see it a lot more now with someone like Travis Scott being directly involved with designing kits for Barcelona. That’s sports, music, and fashion all blended into one avenue and interacting. Whereas a few years ago, you didn’t see that at all.
So now I think it’s going to be something very prominent where you’re going to start to see a lot of the larger clubs, for example, AC Milan, collaborating with a Billie Eilish. Even seeing collabs between artists designing and having a capsule collection with a club like Real Madrid, or even Arsenal. I think those kinds of partnerships are going to be even more prevalent as time goes on, especially with the modernization of the sport of football.
I love unique jerseys. Not every unique jersey is a good jersey, but something with Corinthians, they really take time and effort when it comes to how they design their jerseys and how they want to be perceived, even from a lifestyle perspective. So even with me, what I’m wearing right now, this kit is just the perfect blend of such simple colours and such a simple design, but it works perfectly. And yeah, I love this jersey. I try my best to style it whenever I can.
What does the future hold for Saint Harris?
I definitely want to share more of my personality going forward. A lot of people know me—or a lot of people recognize me—but they don’t actually know me. So I want to start building out that story more, on top of the image that I’ve been able to develop online and the perspective and the inspiration I’ve been able to give people.
Where I see things being in the future is more blurring between different sections and sectors of culture. We see it a lot more now with someone like Travis Scott being directly involved with designing kits for Barcelona. That’s sports, music, and fashion all blended into one avenue and interacting. Whereas a few years ago, you didn’t see that at all.
So now I think it’s going to be something very prominent where you’re going to start to see a lot of the larger clubs, for example, AC Milan, collaborating with a Billie Eilish. Even seeing collabs between artists designing and having a capsule collection with a club like Real Madrid, or even Arsenal. I think those kinds of partnerships are going to be even more prevalent as time goes on, especially with the modernization of the sport of football.
