The Music Festival Blog

FIB has been happening in Benicassim since 1995 and it remains the most cosmopolitan music festival on the Spanish coast — the one where the crowd mix of British, French,...

Arenal Sound exists at the intersection of two things that Spanish summer culture does better than anywhere else: music festivals and beach holidays. The Playa del Arenal in Burriana, Castellon,...

The drive from Valencia to Cullera takes about forty minutes, and somewhere around the moment you hit the AP-7 and see the Jucar river delta opening out toward the sea,...

Black-tie is the dress code that most reliably produces a room full of people dressed identically and a handful who have understood it correctly. The identical majority: floor-length gowns in...

The cowgirl aesthetic is having the most sustained cultural moment it has experienced since the era of Shania Twain — and this time the influence is running in both directions,...

There is a specific type of festival outfit that looks extraordinary in the planning stages — the anchor piece chosen, the bottom half sorted, the footwear confirmed — and then...

Club nights are one of those occasions that generate enormous outfit anxiety relative to what they actually require. The fundamental question — what do I wear? — feels complicated by...

The question I get asked most often when people are choosing between festival pieces is some version of this: what is actually the difference? The mirror bodysuit and the sequin...

The first festival outfit I ever built was assembled backwards. I started with the accessories — the body glitter, the sunglasses, the layered necklaces — and worked backward toward the...

Three of the most visually impactful elements in festival fashion — fringe, tassel, and feathers — are frequently used interchangeably in descriptions and confused at point of purchase. They are...

The sequin dress is the most powerful piece in party fashion, and also the most misunderstood. I have watched women try on sequin dresses in the same way you might...

At some point at every festival, someone asks me why I chose a bodysuit instead of a jumpsuit, or the other way around. The question is more interesting than it...