CELEBRITY STREET STYLE AT COACHELLA: SO MUCH MORE THAN FRINGE

Whether you have total FOMO or you’ve been rolling your eyes at the Instagram posts that have flooded your phone this past weekend, Coachella is upon us. Weekend two of the music festival to end all music festivals was last weekend, filled with performances from musicians and street style savants alike.

Street style at Coachella is, to say the least, a mixed bag. Although many festival goers are content to throw on a pair of cutoff denim shorts, flash some fringe, and perhaps top off their look with a flower crown, other attendees are more discerning in their sartorial choices. Rather than mirror the rampant cultural appropriation and indecent exposure typical at music festivals such as Coachella, these people stand out in the crowd for looking surprisingly polished. They are unconventional in their rejection of the iconic Coachella style.

This is not to say that their looks are not still visually interesting, innovative, or fun. Merely that—in a sea of edgy outfits on the verge of falling off the proverbial edge—trying a little less hard to look cool is cool. What was once a music festival has become a contest of which model/DJ/social media guru can look the most faux-bohemian. That being said, there is something kind of radical about not worrying that much about looking radical.

This is not to say, however, that the normal staples of festival dressing have been abandoned forever. There is a new trend developing at Coachella, and we’re calling it “not trying so hard to look like you’re not trying so hard.” Here are some people that got it right.