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After years of FOMO and planning my hypothetical festival looks—and rating the outfits of others—your girl FINALLY made it out to Indio for Coachella!
It was everything I dreamed of and more. I am writing this with major exhaustion, but I had such a great time dancing along to some of my favorite artists, exploring the cool art installations, and of course doing all the outfit spotting and people watching.
I cannot even decide who my favorite act of the weekend was. Ariana Grande obviously brought the house down and closed out the festival in style. Tame Impala was heavy on the groovy vibes. The 1975 and Khalid both got me dancing. Weezer performed so many of my favorite songs from growing up. And Janelle Monae served so many fierce looks during her performance. So yeah, it was a great weekend.
As you know, festival fashion is a HUGE deal, so I'm super excited to show you my outfits from the weekend! Keep scrolling to get all the details on each look:
Day One
The first day was probably my most Coachella-y, with a fun, sunny outfit with some rave-inspired accessories and beauty. I wore a backless halter top from Superdown with a black denim Madewell skirt and classic high-tops.
I accented the look with sassy Quay cat eyes, a clear Brandy Melville backpack that I wore all weekend (just the right size for all my desert essentials!), and little space buns in my hair!
I was a little nervous about wearing this top because it's more skin than yours truly usually shows, but one thing I learned is that nobody cares at Coachella and also there will always be someone wearing way less than you! Seriously, I've never seen so many thongs and pasties in broad daylight before this weekend. To each their own, I suppose!
Day Two
I call this look "Festival Fairy". With a lavender Free People dress and 70s inspired stick straight hair with tiny braids, this was my boho look of the weekend. I wore flat lace-up boots and fun purple sunglasses I found last minute at Forever 21 to give the look a fun touch.
Another festival tip: wear comfortable shoes! I know this sounds self-explanatory, but it will make or break your festival-going experience, especially at Coachella. There is so much walking, not only within the grounds (which are huge) but to and from the shuttle drop-off.
ANOTHER tip: DON'T take Uber! The drop-off point is super far away (and you have to walk on really large gravel to get there), the wait times are hours long AND they add surge charges. Fun! So really, if you are thinking about going to Coachella, make sure to get the shuttle pass and save yourself the headache.
Day Three
By Day Three I knew exhaustion would be setting in, so I planned my most comfortable outfit for this day! I found this really cool embellished Led Zeppelin T-shirt on Revolve and paired it with a classic pair of high-waisted jean shorts.
I had a lot of fun with the accessories this day, layering a multi-chain necklace and a bandana (make sure you bring plenty of these for dust flare ups!) a rainbow bracelet stack, cool sunglasses, and metallic purple hair glitter from IGK!
The perfect outfit for dancing all night and staying until queen Ariana Grande shut down the festival!
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Have you gone to Coachella? What are your thoughts on festivals? Let me know in the comments!
Shop My Festival Looks:
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| Wearing Madewell dress, scarf, and sunglasses |
Rock that desert style!
Heading to Coachella or another festival soon? Well, lucky you! You're bound to have a fantastic time, but do you know what you're going to wear!?!? Festival fashion is just as important as the musical headliners these days, and if you want to stand out from the crowd, you've got to dress to impress!
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| image via Tyler Joe for Elle |
Coachella fashion may be a bit ridiculous at this point, but that doesn't mean everyone has resorted to flower crowns and cut-offs. For every overdone cliché there was a look that screamed festival perfection, from celebrity party looks to just plain-old chic concertgoers. See some of my favorite looks below!
What were your favorite looks from Coachella? Share in the comments below!
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| (via Tyler Joe for Elle) |
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| Kristina Bazan of Kayture (via Harper's Bazaar) |
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| (via Gastro Chic for WhoWhatWear) |
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| (via Gastro Chic for WhoWhatWear) |
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| Kate Bosworth in Etro jacket, Kempner dress, Ray-Ban sunglasses, and Coach purse (via Buzzfeed) |
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| Alana Haim (via Emily Knecht for Vogue) |
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| Alexa Chung in a Chloé dress and Ray-Ban sunglasses (via Refinery29) |
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| (via Harper's Bazaar) |
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| Alessandra Ambrosio, in an Alé by Alessandra romper, with friends (via Tyler Joe for Elle) |
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| Harley Viera Newton does it right in a gingham matching set at last year's Coachella (source) |
Music festival season is once again upon us, and with it a slew of girls making the pilgrimage to Urban Outfitters and Free People in search of the perfect bohemian flower child wardrobe. Festival fashion has become a bit of a cliché over the years—a mix of wannabe Woodstock attendee and try-hard eclectic music lover. Take a shot for every flower crown or pair of Birkenstocks you see and you might die of alcohol poisoning before the first headliner even steps on the main stage. WhoWhatWear's Jessica Schiffer wrote a great little article about her thoughts on festival fashions and the done-to-death nature of Coachella chic that I felt really got at the root of what frustrated me about festivals in the first place. At first, the flower crowns and the crop tops were sparse and stood out, but now they have taken over, leaving no room for originality.
So how does one make festival attire interesting once again? After all, festivals like SXSW, Coachella, and Lollapalooza are where the everyday concert-goer has a chance of being snapped by a major street style blog or fashion website, so the pressure certainly is on to look one's best. Instead of reaching for a Navajo-inspired bikini top or a pair of denim cut-offs, look to simpler designs in clean, raw fabrics and interesting shapes. No one said that in order to look fashionable at a music festival one had to look like a caricature.
Below are some sure-fire outfit formulas that will get you noticed at festivals while offering something brand new (aka not overdone) to the world of festival fashion.
Matching Set + Sneakers + Backpack
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| Dior sunglasses | T by Alexander Wang top and skirt | Topshop backpack | Superga sneakers |
Boxy Top + Culottes + Flatforms
This look is all about comfort and ease. A loose top and culottes will give you plenty of room to breathe; all the better to dance around in! Flatforms are one step above the typical flat sandal and will keep your feet from aching.
Shift Dress + Gladiator Sandals + Crossbody Bag
When in need of an easy outfit, a good dress is all you need. Calf-high gladiator sandals add a touch of trendiness, and a crossbody is fashionable functionality at its finest.
What NOT to Wear
Flower crowns are, for some reason, the festival headpiece staple, but you are more original than that! There are plenty of fun headpieces and hair accessories that don't involve cheap-looking fake flowers.
Bandeaus, swimsuit tops, etc. They usually are paired with a pair of too-short denim shorts and scream, "It's too hot outside to be fashionable" which is a statement you should NEVER utter! You can always be chic, even when the sun is beating down and those tents are stuffy and gross. I know you have more creativity than that.
And seriously, NO NATIVE HEADDRESSES or any other form of Native American dress. That is cultural appropriation and it is offensive and silly, so just don't do it. Headdresses are sacred ceremonial items, and they were not made so you could look "unique" while jamming out to some underground rock band and smoking pot.
Still in need of inspiration? Check out my new "Festival Ready" Pinterest board for shoppable items that are perfect for your next music festival!
Bandeaus, swimsuit tops, etc. They usually are paired with a pair of too-short denim shorts and scream, "It's too hot outside to be fashionable" which is a statement you should NEVER utter! You can always be chic, even when the sun is beating down and those tents are stuffy and gross. I know you have more creativity than that.
And seriously, NO NATIVE HEADDRESSES or any other form of Native American dress. That is cultural appropriation and it is offensive and silly, so just don't do it. Headdresses are sacred ceremonial items, and they were not made so you could look "unique" while jamming out to some underground rock band and smoking pot.
Still in need of inspiration? Check out my new "Festival Ready" Pinterest board for shoppable items that are perfect for your next music festival!
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| All images from Elle and Harper's Bazaar online |
After about the fiftieth festival style post featuring girls in crop tops and Native American feather headdresses, music festival outfits can become sort of redundant.
That is why I was absolutely delighted to see that not everyone succumbed to such overdone festival fashion cliches for the world-famous Coachella Music Festival.
Bikini tops are fine (it is 90+ degrees out there, after all) but they look way cuter with a ladylike midi skirt than with tired jagged-edge denim cutoffs. And a bohemian Valentino fringe suede coat is an amazing (and much less offensive) appropriation of "western" style.
Coachella has become a hub for the fashion crowd (my own offices were almost empty when I came in last friday, when the first weekend of the festival was already in full swing) and I love the inspiration they bring with their more original outfits. Because there is totally a way you can look chic and fashionable while still appropriately dressed for a festival in the desert (aka wearing practical clothing).
So thank you, Coachella fashionistas for continuing to transform festival style and giving me hope that not everyone attending is wearing fringe bikinis and and cutoffs.
...you can still enjoy the idea of Coachella. I myself have never actually been (though I came extremely close to going this year) but I almost like it that way, like I have this idea of what a three-day music festival in Indio should be like and that's kind of enough to satisfy my eagerness to actually go. A lot of people have told me that while the music is great and the festival is so much fun there are a lot of things that detract, like running out of water and finding parking and turning into a puddle of sweat in the heat- you know, real things. So for now I have this perfect image in my head of all the wonderful things and I can ignore everything else.
It doesn't matter if you are making the pilgrimage out to the desert this year, because there's one thing we can all learn from the festivities in the valley: how to dress for the summer. Seriously, dudes, the girls at Coachella always impress me. Maybe they are fairies that don't sweat and can therefore manage to look adorable in 100-degree weather, but somehow these chicks always rock the festival like they are on the main stage.
Everything is very eclectic and yet you secretly know those girls spent hours curating the contents of their hemp suitcases before making their way to the desert. The Coachella goer almost always packs the following:
It doesn't matter if you are making the pilgrimage out to the desert this year, because there's one thing we can all learn from the festivities in the valley: how to dress for the summer. Seriously, dudes, the girls at Coachella always impress me. Maybe they are fairies that don't sweat and can therefore manage to look adorable in 100-degree weather, but somehow these chicks always rock the festival like they are on the main stage.
Everything is very eclectic and yet you secretly know those girls spent hours curating the contents of their hemp suitcases before making their way to the desert. The Coachella goer almost always packs the following:
- Denim Cutoffs- shorts are necessary to stay cool in desert heat, preferably if they are unraveling at the hems, full of rips, and stone-washed to a pulp
- Cross-body Bag- you want a bag that can function when you are moving around, something small enough that it won't weigh you down, but also something that can hold all your necessities
- Maxi Dress- embrace the "New Age Woodstock" vibes and make like a hippie in a light, flowy dress
- Sweet Shades-When you are out all day in the bright sun, your eyes need some stylin' sunglasses to keep your eyes protected. Ray-Bans are always a hit
- Gladiator Sandals- You want sandals that will stay on your feet even when you are rocking out to the Black Keys, so straps and buckles are your new best friends
(Coachella images from Harper's Bazaar; Clothing items from net-a-porter)
Guess who's going to college! THIS GIRL!
And maybe because I've got university on the brain I turn to a coveted collegiate tradition: Spring Break. Of course high schools have breaks in the springtime as well, but there seems to be something almost magical about having to take a break from college, which seems so otherworldly and sophisticated right now, but I know is basically just like high school with new people (or not, if I end up going to UCSB, because that is like my high school 2.0)
Well, whatever age you are, whatever you are taking a springtime break from, let's celebrate with some fabulous vacation wardrobes full of sunshine-ready clothes! I've got Palm Springs on the brain for two reasons: Indian Wells Tennis Tournament and Coachella. I wanted to go to both and can go to neither, so I will live vicariously through these two metaphorical suitcase checklists. The first one is everything preppy I would wear to a tennis tournament, and the second is my dream Coachella getup, because you know, the things you wear to Coachella are infinitely more important than the acts you see. (LOL JK)
And maybe because I've got university on the brain I turn to a coveted collegiate tradition: Spring Break. Of course high schools have breaks in the springtime as well, but there seems to be something almost magical about having to take a break from college, which seems so otherworldly and sophisticated right now, but I know is basically just like high school with new people (or not, if I end up going to UCSB, because that is like my high school 2.0)
Well, whatever age you are, whatever you are taking a springtime break from, let's celebrate with some fabulous vacation wardrobes full of sunshine-ready clothes! I've got Palm Springs on the brain for two reasons: Indian Wells Tennis Tournament and Coachella. I wanted to go to both and can go to neither, so I will live vicariously through these two metaphorical suitcase checklists. The first one is everything preppy I would wear to a tennis tournament, and the second is my dream Coachella getup, because you know, the things you wear to Coachella are infinitely more important than the acts you see. (LOL JK)
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| 1. Stella McCartney 2. Collette Dinnigan 3. Marc by Marc Jacobs 4. Miu Miu 5. Stella McCartney 6. Marc by Marc Jacobs 7. Alexander Wang 8. Chloe 9. See by Chloe 10. Dolce & Gabbana 11. Sonia by Sonia Rykiel 12. Sonia by Sonia Rykiel |
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| 1. Oak 2. Missoni 3. Proenza Schouler 4. Missoni 5. Miu Miu 6. Moschino Cheap & Chic 7. Clu 8. Proenza Schouler 9. Illesteva 10. Alice + Olivia 11. Bell Sigerson Morrison 12. J. Brand 13. Missoni 14. Ksubi |
(all items available at net-a-porter.com)
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