Kate Moss may have set the standard "I m with the band" festival chic when she started sporting very abridged cutoffs and wellies to Glastonbury Festival, but by now the look has become somewhat de rigueur; sure, your legs look good, but is that really the best you ve got? Leave it to Instagram s favorite British model Olympia Campbell to pave an actually outré festival-going look of nineties raver-redux-meets-hazy-flower-child that has us totally rethinking our approach. Think pastel crocheted high-waisted shorts with a matching cropped tank, topped off with a banana yellow Muppet vest, and accessorized with very oversize palm-tree-embellished frames. “I hate looking like I m in uniform—and wellies are also extremely unsexy to dance in,” says Campbell of her concert-hopping ensemble. “Not that I was looking particularly sexy anyway—unless people are into the bag lady look!"
Campbell’s ensembles for the musical affair ran the gamut of retro frocks with sleeves of bell-bottom proportions patchworked in fuchsia, red, and violet, to a Pepto-pink jacket paired with a barely there top. And those off-kilter looks comparable to the garb in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat roused plenty of reactions from fellow showgoers. “There were quite a lot of people who dressed pretty wacky, but someone did say I looked like a bumblebee one day, and I got quite a few compliments on my big colorful coat with the wizard sleeves,” says Campbell. “Most of the time I think people just thought I looked like a complete madwoman.” In a sea of the same-old cutoffs? That s definitely a good thing.
And as for where Campbell scored the goods? It was all London-sourced. “I went shopping along Portobello Road,” says Campbell. “There s this great shop that sells lots of old Afghan clothes where I bought the embroidered cropped shirt.” And Campbell plans on wearing her garb-on-the-grounds on the street, too—though her neighbors may not be too keen on the look. "I’m not sure the yummy mummies of Notting Hill would approve if I walked around the streets wearing the same outfits,” says Campbell. “But I’m quite mad for hats, so that crushed bowler should come out pretty often.” Wearing your festival duds year-round? That’s something we’ll definitely tip our hat to.
