STREET STYLE

Coachella’s Best Denim Is Patched Up and Painted


Kiernan Shipka

There are a few clichés of music festival street style: crop tops, cut-off shorts, crochet, cultural appropriation in the form of feathered headdresses. Denim, too, is a staple of the festival circuit, but at this year’s two weekends of the Coachella festival in Indio, California, there was something of a denim revival. Patched up with cartoons and bright embroidery (and even a giant Donald Trump face), splattered with paint, ultra-bleached or ultra-dyed, the Coachella set showed off anything but pedestrian blue jeans. And as real, rough, non-spandex-infused denim comes back in vogue this season, Coachella’s street style offers a bit of inspiration to style spring’s easiest trend. Here, see the best denim of Coachella street style.

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Kiernan Shipka set the gold standard for festival denim in a matching Valentino set at Coachella’s first weekend in Indio, California, April 2016. Photo by Getty Images.

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Guest at Neon Carnival. Photo by Ted Emmons.

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