Coachella’s Best Denim Is Patched Up and Painted

There are a few clichés of music festival street style: crop tops, cut-off shorts, crochet, cultural appropriation in the form of feathered headdresses. Denim, too, is a staple of the festival circuit, but at this year’s two weekends of the Coachella festival in Indio, California, there was something of a denim revival. Patched up with cartoons and bright embroidery (and even a giant Donald Trump face), splattered with paint, ultra-bleached or ultra-dyed, the Coachella set showed off anything but pedestrian blue jeans. And as real, rough, non-spandex-infused denim comes back in vogue this season, Coachella’s street style offers a bit of inspiration to style spring’s easiest trend. Here, see the best denim of Coachella street style.