Smoker in Floral

Interestingly, at the Strawberry Festival, they didn’t allow liquids to be brought in, there was no alcohol selling after the first day, and I did not catch the scent of anything more nefarious. There were a lot of cigarettes though.

Strawberry Field

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The Strawberry Festival might be the most popular music event in Beijing and is quite the catwalk. Perhaps the key street fashion event of the year, this past weekend’s Strawberry at Tongzhou Canal Park brought 130 artists and Djs to six stages over three days together with thousands of quirkily dressed revelers. Here on Stylites, the next ten or so posts will show off all their colors, while noting some key trends that emerged.

A Festival Couple


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This pictures seems representative of the better-dressed couples at Beijing music festivals. The girls tend to be slightly dressy whereas the boys adopt more of a street wear type of look.

At PingGu Festival


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The International Labor Day holiday always means music festivals in Beijing and this year there were at least three major ones competing for the attention of music fans, hipsters, and party-animals.

The China Music Valley Festival (中国乐谷音乐季) held this long weekend in gathered at the Yuyang International Ski resort in Beijing’s Ping Gu district was worth the 1.5 hour long journey. The second day’s headliners The Editors, Ladytron and KT Tunstall attracted a diverse crowd that included families, fashionistas and fancy dressed British expats.

Acceptable in the ’70s

And today…Okay, viewers must be tiring of photos from the Modern Sky festival, but I had such a wealth of them sitting on my computer. On a normal day on the streets of Beijing, I rarely see anyone to photograph.

To me, it seems like a perfect outfit for a music festival. I could imagine this exact look some time in the early 1970s.

我知道我放了太多摩登天空音乐节的图片,但我差点忘了这张跟我想象中的七十年代去音乐节穿法差不多的。