Love Clothing: Festivals: The Summer of love is almost upon us…

Festival Fashion 2012

Thousands of people in a field + British weather = mud bath.

Little changes in festival fashion. Timeless looks such as shorts, t-shirt and flip flops/wellies will never go out of fashion at a festival. A celebrity like Kate Moss, the ultimate rock chick, is every girls fashion icon when packing for a festival.

Festivals have become a veritable catwalk of style, with trends created in a muddy backstage area. Kate Moss’s classic wellies, with a bit of animal print and short shorts has become a hit and must have look for festival goers. The Summer of love is almost upon us! Get your hard-core partying wardrobe prepped for rain, shine and muddy fields for festival fun season.

DSquared2 designers paid homage to music festivals with their spring 2012 collection presented on the final day of Milan Fashion Week. With their trademark denim, the DSquared2 duo had all the signatures of a music festival complete with mud, fringe, floppy hats and even beer bottles. With shades of Woodstock and beach culture, models walked down the catwalk in bold hues and colourful accessories including flag prints.

If you're heading to festivals this summer, you may already be dreaming about lying down on the grass while the chords fall from guitar frets or the booming voices of great bands washes over you like cashing waves. But before you even get that far there's a more pressing matter at for the colder and wetter evenings, layering is key. Expect to see vests layered with oversize checked shirts, drapey cardigans and bold nylon jackets.

Men's festival fashion, this season’s focal point for festival-goers will be on the grungier side of things, with dark greens, greys and reds on oversize tees and vests – undoubtedly a big trend for the coming months get the most out of your festival season from I Love Clothes.

The 1970 standards will always have their place in festival fashion’s heart. Denim hot pants, crochet tops and hippie headbands won’t fail, nor will the more recently popular ’90s grunge/rock looks. But the vastness of spring 2012′s trends also allows festival goers to break free of the clichés and do something a little different and more in tune with the season.

But it’s all about doing so in style utility jackets, tribal chic long dresses with raffia embroidery, denim hot pants, waterproof parkas and rain boots take the stage. Wild chick’s rock out by mixing style indie in colours: vivid and crazy just like the crowd! Banners, ribbons and curtains wave to the sound of rock.

As drops of rain start to hit the stage and the grass, the greens become brown inspired pieces together with indie and grunge elements: a unique very Glasto-style colours: vivid and crazy just like the crowd! Banners, ribbons and curtains wave to the sound of rock. From London to Glastonbury, Dsquared²’s rock chicks and boho-hippies, muses of a new shabby chic couture, move to the beat of music on a runway covered with mud, strongly evocative of this epic music festival.

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