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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’.
Kelly-Carola Kipp
- Jul 30, 2021
- 3 min
Five Summer Festival Fashion Trends 2021 You Could Find in the Vintage Shops
This time of the year has now arrived - sunny days, long nights, loud music, and a lot of summer festivals. Festival fashion is a big...
Emily Aitken
- Jul 30, 2021
- 3 min
Research and Respect: How to Dress for the Festival Season
British summertime is here. Warm nights, cold drinks, and thumping music can only mean one thing: festival season. Whatever your...
Adam Noor
- Jul 29, 2021
- 3 min
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...
Shrishti Maharajsibgh
- Jul 29, 2021
- 4 min
"Repeating an Outfit" – Myth or a Taboo?
Warm summer nights, loud blaring music, refreshing mimosas, dancing in fields amongst the flowers with your friends, excessive amounts of...
Nathalie Barona
- Jul 29, 2021
- 3 min
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’...
Eve O'Connell
- Jul 29, 2021
- 4 min
There's No Room for Toxic Celebrity Culture at Festivals
On a normal night out, most of us agonize about what to wear. Will my arms look too big in this dress? Is this jumpsuit too out there for...
Zoe Huang
- Jul 28, 2021
- 3 min
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...
Gemma Norfolk
- Jul 28, 2021
- 3 min
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...
Natalie Latham
- Jul 27, 2021
- 3 min
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...
Isabella Sim
- Jul 27, 2021
- 4 min
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...
Morgan Smith
- Jul 27, 2021
- 4 min
#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...
Meera Barot
- Jul 27, 2021
- 4 min
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...
Lucy Stone
- Jul 26, 2021
- 3 min
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...
Mackenzie Blacklock
- Jul 26, 2021
- 3 min
Here's Why You Should Stop Using Glitter
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...
Lily Smith
- Jul 23, 2021
- 4 min
How Sustainable Are Your Festival Wellies?
It's coming up to summer, so you know that what that means. Festival season is fast approaching. Because of the pandemic it is looking...
Nicola Clarke
- Jul 23, 2021
- 4 min
Do You Need a Guide to Guilt-Free Festival Fashion?
The impact of festival fashion It is approximated that single-use clothing equates to $307 million per year. That’s 7.5 million outfits...
Laura Hilditch
- Jul 23, 2021
- 3 min
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...
Imogen Steel
- Jul 22, 2021
- 3 min
DIY Festival Outfits: Saving The Environment And Your Wallet
Festival season is upon us! If things go well with the vaccine and all restrictions are lifted on the 21st June, big gatherings will be...
Janine Ferry
- Jul 22, 2021
- 3 min
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...
Harriet Bell
- Jul 21, 2021
- 3 min
The First Pride was a Riot.
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...
Tom Dent
- Jul 20, 2021
- 3 min
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...
Hannah Whitfield
- Jul 20, 2021
- 3 min
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...
Georgina Kirby
- Jul 20, 2021
- 5 min
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...
Georgia Clarke
- Jul 19, 2021
- 3 min
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,...
Alice Gilchrist-Miller
- Jul 19, 2021
- 4 min
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...
Amber Pool
- Jul 19, 2021
- 2 min
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...
Ebonnie Lewis
- Jul 16, 2021
- 3 min
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...
Grace Cockerill
- Jul 15, 2021
- 3 min
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...
Georgia Murgatroyd
- Jul 15, 2021
- 4 min
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...
Lauren Ditchfield
- Jul 15, 2021
- 2 min
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...
Olivia Lawlor-McDonald
- Jul 14, 2021
- 3 min
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....
Abigail Forrest
- Jul 14, 2021
- 4 min
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...
