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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 from the mundaneness of our everyday realities. Fashion has also offered us the chance to express ourselves and rebel against the long-standing conformist societies in which we live. It is no surprise then, that wherever you may be in the world, festival season represents a time of profound release and inner most expression. “Time to find my tribe”. Adam Bloodworth, of the Huffington Post, UK Who are my People?! We’ve all struggled at one time or another to make new friends. For me the main difficulty always lay…
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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 head spins under your flower-crown and your feet dance on the muddy ground. Hypnotised, you gaze around at your friends, at the sea of people surrounding you: thousands of hearts beating as one, high on peace, sex and psychedelics. It’s the summer of love. The mystical Woodstock Festival of 1969 has earned its place in pop-culture history as the era-defining moment that catapulted festival culture into the mainstream. In the 50 years since Woodstock, the number of people making their annual pilgrimage to music festivals…
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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 to wear?’ Festival fashion has become a crucial part of the industry – every summer we wait to see the newest trends and what the latest celebrities are wearing. But before you bring out the Pinterest boards and wish lists of outfits for each of this summer’s events, consider how many of these items of clothing you will wear again. The problem with fast fashion “Clothing production is the third biggest manufacturing industry after the automotive and technology industries. Textile production contributes more to climate change than…
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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 only. As we are potentially missing yet another year of fun, the festival blues are really hitting hard. But, it’s not all doom and gloom! Looking back at the best festi-fits throughout the decades can give us a glimmer of hope (and inspo) for when we will be partying again. 1960s Woodstock, 1969 – the legendary festival to end all festivals. Marketed as “3 Days of Peace & Music”, Woodstock was a seminal event for the counterculture movement. The apparel seen on the attendees encapsulated ‘60s and…
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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 of the biggest festivals on the globe which see celebrities from far and wide attend. Arguably, the two biggest festivals with the most media coverage are Glastonbury in the UK and Coachella in the US. Fashion is one of the most important things at a festival and standards are always set high. Fans and celebrities attending festivals tend to pick out their outfits way ahead of the actual event, hence why this type of fashion is hard to compete with. In the past, festival…
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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 lost. Festivals are known for the unique fashion style that has been adapted over the years. With society changing, so is the fashion world. Festivals are all about expression and individuality and this can be seen in styles today. The birthplace, 1969, Woodstock. “Woodstock was a spark of beauty” Joni Mitchell The most memorable festival to be held, this is the festival that tops all festivals. Woodstock was the birthplace of fashion festival. From Moo to Music, half a billion people stood on what was a…
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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. Fast fashion is a highly profitable business model based on replicating trends and high-fashion design. This is not sustainable as these trends are being mass produced at low cost. Festivals are a main culprit of fast fashion because consumers buy cheap clothes to wear to them and throw them away afterwards. “This is wasteful, expensive and unsustainable, both in terms of the environmental costs of making new outfits and the tonnes of wasted clothes which then end up in landfill” Barnardo’s The independent reported, in a survey people…
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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 finally coming to an end (cases permitting)- companies and other brands are opening their store doors once again. When you think of summer what do you think off? Personally I think of beer gardens and friends- but this year the buzz is mainly circulating around festivals. Leeds festival to be specific. All excitement aside, it isn’t a surprise to anyone when they discover that music festivals generate a lot of waste that doesn’t help the environment in any way. It has been discovered that music festivals…
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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, thousands of us Brits will be there. It’s a time to be free, dance, and wear the coolest fashion. A time to make memories with friends, family, and loved ones that will stay in your mind forever. The feeling of escapism is so important for people with festivals and live events being somewhere where this feeling can be express itself. With mental health issues becoming ever-more prominent, escapism gives freedom for those who may be feeling trapped. All in all, not many things come close to the…
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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 favourite artists perform in one setting while spending time with friends is popular with many people. However, what is interesting to see is the contrast in festival attire, particularly when it comes to British festivals and American festivals. In the UK, festivals are ingrained into teen culture and often groups of 5 or more friends will venture out to the fields of Leeds, Reading and Glastonbury to get their fix of music, alcohol and fairground rides, among many other things. Due to the muddy conditions…
