Festival fashion!

Every year around this time, thousands of music lovers prepare to flock to locales across North America and Europe for weekend-long celebrations of peace, love and cut-offs. And while the festival fashion trend serves as mainstay inspiration for designers like Isabel Marant, Anna Sui and Blugirl, it was given new life for Spring 2013 with an explosion of crafty macramé, 1990s-era printed T-shirts and fringe. Music festivals such as Coachella (California), Bonnaroo (Tennessee) and Osheaga (Montreal) have become important trend-breeding grounds for designers and retailers; festival fashion items like crop tops, feathered headdresses, knit vests and flowy maxi dresses have become almost as relevant as what comes down the ready-to-wear runways.