When you hear “Coachella style,” the first thing that comes to mind is not the most chic. In recent years the hot denim short, bikini top, cowboy hat and some sort of fringe suede number has become synonymous with the festival. Long gone are prairie dresses, the right side of Western and the eternally cool groovy ’60s.
Jared Leto is a good example of how different references from different genres don’t blend together always. The grunge plaid shirt and rock ‘n’ roll skinny zebra pants, with the skater Vans and sleeveless T-shirt misses the mark by trying too hard to be cool.
Amber Rose is another example of a celebrity trying to capitalize on a past musical trend — in this case, the raver plastic orange pants with the S&M inspired leather bra top and platform combat boots. Rose also fails to revive the ’90s moment.
All the hot shorts paired with crop tops and strangely winter footwear, such as knee-high boost or chunky booties, blend together and become the poster child of what’s wrong with Coachella style. Adding a netted top, like Victoria Justice, or a statement hat, like Jasmine Tookes, only worsens the fashion quotient. In the case of Paris Jackson and Lindsay Lohan, we’re left slightly speechless. It seems they got dressed in the dark, or they purposely tried to create a new type of pattern combination that for good reason was never tried before.
It is clear this is a denim-centric festival, and opting for acid wash or bleached details — or any other adventurous finish — rarely succeeds.
