Next Stop, Barcelona! How Chairlift’s Caroline Polachek Transforms Her Tour Style Inline
Photo: Courtesy of Caroline Polachek1/17We arrived in Barcelona on the red-eye, but instead of napping, got a coffee and made our way across the city on foot.
Photo: Courtesy of Caroline Polachek2/17An exterior detail of Gaudí’s masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia cathedral.
Photo: Courtesy of Caroline Polachek3/179 a.m., battling jet lag at soundcheck on the Primavera festival stage! Espresso in hand.
Photo: Courtesy of Caroline Polachek4/17After a much-needed nap, I am ready for the stage. The dressing rooms look like bathrooms here because they’re the Barcelona sailing team’s locker rooms! My smock dress is by New York designers Vaquera.
Photo: Courtesy of Caroline Polachek5/17After soundcheck at the Trabendo the following day, I met up with an old friend at the canal by the Quai de Valmy. We were very close to where the Paris attacks happened last November, and yet the neighborhood had recovered and was back to its old self. Just behind me was a group freestyle-rapping to each other—I wish I had recorded them, it sounded so good.
