Music and Fashion have always had a strong connection, from way before Vogue and Rolling Stone Magazine got into the game. Trought times, musicians have proved a knack for picking up, and popularizing, international trends and movements. Well traveled and often perseptive to everything new, through history they have inspired everyone from the Lady of the House to die-hard fans. The economic growth of the 50s gave teens their own fashions, for the first time in history, while the music festivals of the 60s and 70s gave street fashions and underground music an International platform. Legendary music festivals have given birth to some of the most iconic festival fashions in time, and they are still alive and kicking. OK, so some of them may burn your eyes, but who cares. It’s only Rock´n´Roll. And Jazz. And Metal. And we like it.

GLASTONBURY – SHABBY CHIC
Glastonbury in England, is a typical example of a festival, known as much for it’s spin-off fashions as the music itself. The image of a painfully skinny Kate Moss, dressed in PVC-pants and high heels under the arm of a scruffy looking Pete Doherty, wearing a hat, suit and silk scarf, will for ever be inprinted in the minds of our generation. The festival dates back to 1914, when it was a respectable theatre and classical music event, but shapeshifted in the 70s, when a farmer desided to turn his farmland into his own personal festival, after having seen Zeppelin live in a nearby town. Woodstock is still on the same land, and run by his daughter. If you don’t already know the shabby chic festival look by heart, all you need to do is mix half-and-half supermodel glamour with Heroin Chic, add a dash of Grunge and plenty of Rock´n´Roll attitude. Live fast, die young and God bless.

Also, check out: Hove (NO), Øya (NO), Isle of White (UK), Reading (UK), Pinkpop (NL)