Glastonbury 2005 Was A Seminal Year For Festival Fashion

2005 was not a vintage year for Glastonbury (the volume of rain saw it dubbed “Farmageddon”), but it delivered on the fashion front. The amount of mud-splattered pac-a-macs was forgivable, because this was the festival that gave us the studded belt. That slither of All Saints leather spelling out “Glastonbury Rocks”, which Kate Moss fastened around her hotpants before sailing off into the night with just her Hunters, a handful of rosary beads and a plastic cup of probably vodka tonic for company. The model, who has since ditched the cigs and created a wellness empire, built the blueprint of festival fashion that summer, and it had nothing to do with flower crowns.

Moss’s formula was simple: wellies were a non-negotiable when thunderstorms threatened to derail The White Stripes’s set. Ditto layers. She made both work for her by throwing on a borrowed-from-my-rocker-boyfriend leather jacket, a Topshop-era waistcoat, a useless but pretty Rockins scarf, and a mussed-up hair-masking fedora to bounce between backstage and Babington. Her philosophy – as is festival lore – was hedonism over haute looks, and no amount of sludge could tarnish the gold Lurex dress that was subsequently copied the world over.

Kate’s 2005 Glasto crew was a party of two – just her and Pete – but Gwyneth Paltrow also braved the flash floods to support her headliner husband at the time, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, wearing her version of skinny jeans and a nice (boho) top. (Perhaps she’d paid attention to Sienna Miller’s coin belt moment the year prior?) Erstwhile power couple Keira Knightley and Jamie Dornan put their spin on grunge with hazard tape pinned to their military jackets and jumpers, and every attendee added just one or two or three more bracelets and necklaces to try and get into the free-spirited mood.

Kate Moss and Pete Doherty.

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