11 times Kate Moss defined Glastonbury Fashion.

Certain things will always be synonymous with Glastonbury, chief among them: Kate Moss. The British super has made a career of wearing couture for more than 30 years now, but to some, Kate is never more Kate than she is in her Hunters, making her way from the VIP to the Pyramid stage with (once upon a time) a cig and a paper cup in tow. 

The supermodel single-handedly invented festival fashion (it’s not a coincidence that Hunter opened a store in New York the year after she first wore a pair at Glasto). From cut-offs to waistcoats to scarf belts to sequins, where Moss went, every other music fan followed, and she’s the reason ticket-holders now curate their festival wardrobes with the same care once reserved for a two-week holiday. 

Were the seeds of the world’s enduring obsession with Kate’s style sown on Worthy Farm? The throwback snaps suggest as much. 

Every girl in the Noughties was wearing a take on flat suede pirate boots. Moss is the reason why. 

The look that launched a thousand welly purchases, the impact of Kate’s waistcoat-and-hotpants combo lives on 15 years later. Just ask Anthony Vaccarello, he sent Kaia Gerber down the Saint Laurent spring/summer 2020 runway in something similar. 

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Coachella 2018: How festival fashion became generic

Last weekend, Coachella, the internationally renowned festival, opened in Indio, California. It's here in the desert that, for the last 19 years, the world's most celebrated musicians have taken to the stage, but also where summer fashion trends are perpetuated.

Take a quick look through this year's Coachella street style photos and you'll see a few recurring elements: fringe and cutoffs; gladiator sandals and desert boots; metallic bindi tattoos; Mexican-style embroidery and vintage-inspired anything.

Do you get the feeling you've seen this all before? That's no coincidence: The initial obsession with the celebrities who graced Glastonbury in rubber boots, short-shorts and vintage fur in the mid-aughts has spawned a global fashion aesthetic that continues to thrive as modern festival-goers scour the shops for pieces that evoke the right aesthetic.

"Fashion and nostalgia have always gone hand in hand, and when it comes to Coachella, it's that whole romanticism about having a music festival, open in the prairies, with a flower child look. It's a hippie look mixed with grunge elements," said Anupreet Bhui, senior editor for global street style at the trend forecasting agency WGSN, who monitors more than 20 festivals around the world. "It's more about the looks than the ideology. Let's not forget: it's the Instagram generation."

Brands and retailers have clearly taken note, with Topshop, H&M, Adidas, Barneys and others dispensing festival-focused capsule collections and shopping edits.

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