Style dispatch: The look of Coachella

Image writer Emili Vesilind -- who has the complexion of a unicorn and hopefully, wore tons of SPF -- hit Coachella this weekend and reports back with a fantastic style report and photos. She writes:

Man, it’s hard to look cool when the desert sun is boring into your brain with the tenacity of a Fall Out Boy single. But style-savvy concertgoers at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival, which descended this weekend on Indio, Calif., managed to look anything but withered.

Left: L.A. vintage sellers Jessica Willis, Jonathan Brown and Dechel McKillian turned heads in retro neon surf garb.

Ladies beat the heat in printed cotton mini-dresses (strapless, halter, tunic, freestyle) or short-shorts -- accessorized to the hilt with gladiator sandals, feathered barrettes, long chunky beaded necklaces, big floppy hats and Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses. Fashion-loving guys opted for cropped baggy trousers with boots or high-top sneaks or T-shirts paired with skinny jeans, gussied up with fedoras or grandpa-style fishing hats.

Right: Kelsey Adams and Mandy Grassini from Em
Productions keeping their cool at the Anthem Magazine party.

But what would Coachella be without its fashion freaks? This year the rebels went native: There was a pack of roaming guys in Speedo bathing suits (see left -- cringe), a girl in a gold bikini teamed with gold hi-tops and a Scandinavian dude in nothing but a “Braveheart”-style kilt and pilot hat. Next year’s big statement? My money’s on chaps.

Got some bitchin' Coachella photos? Send them to monica.corcoran@latimes.com and maybe we'll post them here too.

Photos: Emili Vesilind

Comments

[DesertRAG]

Great blog. Lots of action out in the desert. Did you see these pictures of Prince? He stole Saturday's show!
http://www.mydesert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=J1&Date=20080426&Category=EVENTS17&ArtNo=804260804&Ref=PH&Params=Itemnr=168

[Alex]

Wow im speachless !