Styles has been alluded to as a pop icon[225][226][227] and a design icon.[228][229][230] He's considered among the best independent craftsmen to have risen up out of a band.[231][232] Ben Beaumont-Thomas of The Gatekeeper composed that he is "a star who has arranged quite possibly of the most troublesome progress in music - from boyband to solo craftsman - with more panache than even fruitful progenitors like Justin Timberlake and Robbie Williams." [233] Vocalist lyricist Stevie Scratches compared his collection Scarcely discernible difference to Fleetwood Macintosh's collection Reports and remarked that she was roused by him to compose new music and poetry.[234] Forbes noticed that with his third collection Harry's Home, Styles piled up a first-week vinyl deals count bigger than anything any performer has overseen before.[235] Styles has enlivened his fans to spruce up for his shows, driving Fashionista to re
fer to the
shows as "his fans' Met Function". Furnishes frequently incorporate sequins, pink rancher caps and quill boas[236][237] and have been highlighted in Vogue,[238] The New York Times,[239] and The New Yorker.[240] Books roused by Styles incorporate the After series, Beauty and the Fever, and The Possibility of You.[241][242][243] The After books have been filmed,[244] and Anne Hathaway is projected in the impending film The Possibility of You, an adaption of the novel.[245]
Since One Course's initial years, a gathering of delivery connivance scholar fans, frequently called "Larries", has been committed to demonstrating that Styles and Louis Tomlinson, name mixed as "Larry Stylinson", are covertly a couple that has been closeted by a homophobic music industry.[246][247][248] Scholastics Clare Southerton and Hannah McCann associate the fan gathering to peculiarities like strange perusing and slice fiction.[247][249] In 2016, the boat 
was marked as "one of the biggest components of the One Heading being a fan, which itself is one of the biggest fandoms on the internet".[246] The hypothesis, principally multiplied via virtual entertainment, has prompted web based harassing and provocation of Styles' and Tomlinson's companions, family, and girlfriends.[250][246]
It was declared that in 2023 Texas State College will offer a seminar on Styles called "Harry Styles and the Faction of Superstar: Character, the Web and European Pop Culture."[251] In 2022, Drifter UK named Styles the 'new Lord of Pop', which drew analysis from Michael Jackson's fans and family members.[252]