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Fashion + Festivals
For July 2021, we're exploring the fundamental role fashion plays in the festival experience, how different cultural festivals incorporate fashion in tradition and how festival fashion impacts our planet.
Ah warm summer nights, loud music, dancing in fields with your friends, excessive amounts of glitter, and a city of tents...must be festival season! Festival fashion throws the fashion rule book out the window, as we switch up everyday attire for flares, neons, harnesses, mesh, sparkle and anything that allows us to transform ourselves! Festival fashion is a playground for creativity and expression. The phenomenon of festival fashion is arguably symbolic of progressive youth culture, as festival goers are liberated to dress however they please and dance away any stress or worries of the ‘real world’.
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Them ‘Summer Festival Vibes’: The Problematic Mainstream Use of Bindis
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Jul 30, 20215 min read
Five Summer Festival Fashion Trends 2021 You Could Find in the Vintage Shops
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Kelly-Carola Kipp
Jul 30, 20213 min read
Research and Respect: How to Dress for the Festival Season
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Emily Aitken
Jul 30, 20213 min read
The Four Tenets of Festival Fashion
What are YOU wearing this summer? Festival season is just beyond the horizon, and after the disaster that was summer 2020, we know you...
Adam Noor
Jul 29, 20213 min read
"Repeating an Outfit" – Myth or a Taboo?
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Shrishti Maharajsibgh
Jul 29, 20214 min read
Music Festival or Fast-Fashion Commemoration? Festivals' Impact on the Environment
Many of us may have heard about the impact that fast fashion has upon the environment and the exploitation of resources and workers’...
Nathalie Barona
Jul 29, 20213 min read
There's No Room for Toxic Celebrity Culture at Festivals
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Eve O'Connell
Jul 29, 20214 min read
The Culture of 'Wear-It-Once'
"Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them." - Marc Jacobs Music festivals have become one of the biggest contributions to...
Zoe Huang
Jul 28, 20213 min read
How Single-Use Festival Looks Are Taking a Toll on the Environment
The British charity Barnardo's discovered "That single-use outfits for music festivals, such as Glastonbury and Coachella, alone, account...
Gemma Norfolk
Jul 28, 20213 min read
Top Tips for Dressing Sustainably This Festival Season
Ah, festivals. The fringe. The glitter. The mud. As soon as summer hits, we’re all craving that festival feeling. However, starting to...
Natalie Latham
Jul 27, 20213 min read
The Evolution of Festival Fashion
As the pandemic begins to come to a close, it opens the door for the events industry to thrive. Festivals have become a summer staple...
Isabella Sim
Jul 27, 20214 min read
#InstagramMadeMeDoIt: How influencer festival aesthetic is killing our planet
Festival season is upon us, meaning approximately 23,500 tonnes of waste will be shipped to landfill sites, including your sequin...
Morgan Smith
Jul 27, 20214 min read
Cultural appropriation or festival fashion?
Festival fashion is showcase of experimental and rebellious styles. It’s evolution over the years has seen some iconic trends which have...
Meera Barot
Jul 27, 20214 min read
Sustainability in Festivals- How will you style it?
Fast fashion and sustainability is becoming the most talked about issue within the industry, but how can we apply this to festivals? As...
Lucy Stone
Jul 26, 20213 min read
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If you’ve ever been to a festival, you know the drill – wear your most outlandish outfit, coat yourself in glitter, and live in a field...
Mackenzie Blacklock
Jul 26, 20213 min read
How Sustainable Are Your Festival Wellies?
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Lily Smith
Jul 23, 20214 min read
Do You Need a Guide to Guilt-Free Festival Fashion?
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Nicola Clarke
Jul 23, 20214 min read
A guide to environmentally friendly festival fashion
Summer is just around the corner, and with restrictions being eased, festivals are a go-ahead. The most important question during the...
Laura Hilditch
Jul 23, 20213 min read
DIY Festival Outfits: Saving The Environment And Your Wallet
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Imogen Steel
Jul 21, 20213 min read
Festival Fashion: Pre-festival Clothes Swap Anyone?
The line-up has been announced, the festival tickets are booked, and so, the hunt for the perfect festival outfit begins. In the absence...
Janine Ferry
Jul 21, 20213 min read
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Although at first glance Pride doesn’t seem much like a festival, starting in 1965 as a riot at stonewall, it’s slowly become about the...
Harriet Bell
Jul 20, 20213 min read
What Is Fast Festival Fashion? Why You Should Care!
We've all heard of fast fashion. But around festival season when the sun comes out, along with the glitter box and eye sequins, we seem...
Tom Dent
Jul 19, 20213 min read
UK vs US: Festival Fashion Face-Off
When it comes to festival fashion, there is no rules as to how much glitter, neon, and excess there should be. Festivalgoers are...
Hannah Whitfield
Jul 19, 20213 min read
Festival Fashion: 5 Ways to Not Give a F***
It's April 2021 and I can almost sense a faint whiff of "eau de toilet" flourishing from a rural portaloo. This can only mean one...
Georgina Kirby
Jul 19, 20215 min read
A Cultural Festival Called Carnival - Celebrating West Indian and Latin Communities
What is Carnival? Carnival is a two-day celebration that takes place all over the world. It's filled with fantastic outfits,...
Georgia Clarke
Jul 18, 20213 min read
Woodstock to Once-Stocked: The Rise of Fast Festival Fashion
It’s August, 1969. The electrifying sounds of Rock 'n' roll – Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and the Grateful Dead – wash over you as your...
Alice Gilchrist-Miller
Jul 18, 20214 min read
Fashion, Festivals and Friends For Life
Music festivals have long since been a haven where we can find like-minded friends and enjoy a long-awaited, and sorely needed, break...
Amber Pool
Jul 18, 20212 min read
Festival Fashion: It Shouldn’t Cost the Earth!
With festivals and ‘normal life’ seemingly just around the corner, the question on everybody’s lips once again returns – ‘What am I going...
Ebonnie Lewis
Jul 16, 20213 min read
A Look Back at Festival Fashion throughout the Decades
Ahh, festivals. Remember them? Partying in a packed field all day with your mates, knee-deep in mud and listening to banging tunes. If...
Grace Cockerill
Jul 15, 20213 min read
10 of the Best Celebrity Festival Looks
Festivals are some of the biggest events of the summer, regardless of which side of the Atlantic you’re on. The UK and the US hold some...
Georgia Murgatroyd
Jul 15, 20214 min read
The life of festival fashion
Festivals are a full-on experience with crowds battling rain, mud and inadequate toilets, but it did not allow a sense of style to be...
Lauren Ditchfield
Jul 15, 20212 min read
Festival ‘wear it once’ mentality needs to change
The problem with festival fast fashion The problem with festival fashion starts with it being a buy, wear, throw away business model....
Olivia Lawlor-McDonald
Jul 14, 20213 min read
Have Fun at festivals! But do it Sustainably.
June 21st. Warm nights, fairy lights, the end of lockdown is in sight. The excitement for summer is at large, with the current lockdown...
Abigail Forrest
Jul 14, 20214 min read
How to Make Festival Fashion last Forever
The love for a festival The Great British public love a festival. Whether it is Glastonbury, Parklife, or the Isle of Wight Festival,...
Jack Taggart
Jul 14, 20213 min read
The stark contrast between British and American fashion at festivals
One of the most enjoyed summer pastimes of teens and young adults is attending a good festival. There is no doubt that seeing all your...
Luke Davis
Jul 13, 20213 min read
Easy, spectacular festival fashion!
Fashion has played a pivotal role in festival culture, highlight aspects of rebellion and support. The purpose of fashion in festivals...
Benjamin Stables
Jul 13, 20212 min read
Don’t Just Wear it Once – Festival Fashion
Wear It Once Culture Festival fashion is notorious for its one-wear-and-done approach to clothes. Music festivals especially create this:...
Charlotte Carlile
Jul 13, 20213 min read
FashionFest
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Leah Sharp
Jul 12, 20212 min read
How To Style Sustainable Festival Fashion
After Covid-19 putting our lives on pause, it is understandable that we are eager to return to festivals and hear music live again. As we...
Natasha Judge
Jul 12, 20214 min read
Festival or Plastic Party?
Festivals are a great way to jump on trends and show off your sense of style, but there is more harm behind festival outfits than good....
Lizzy Harrison
Jul 12, 20213 min read
Festival Fashion: Old Is The New New
Festival fashion is always changing but it is not always good for the environment. Have you ever thought about wearing old clothes to a...
Gemma Thompson
Jul 10, 20213 min read
Festival Outfits are Often Unsustainable. So are Festivals.
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Olivia Wilson
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The Evolution of Festival Fashion
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Megan Eccles
Jul 10, 20213 min read
Festival Fashion: from Leeds Fest to Glastonbury
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Sky Coakley
Jul 9, 20213 min read
Festivals: The fashion show must go on
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Isobel Hinchcliffe
Jul 9, 20213 min read
Festival Fashion That Will Save Your Bank
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Brooke Williamson
Jul 9, 20213 min read
Cheltenham Festival: Far from the muddy fields at Bramham Park
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Bronte Mitchell
Jul 8, 20213 min read
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