From heritage brands and vintage design to fancy dress, festivals are the place to get stylistically creative.
Top tip Pile all your hair up on top of your head. If it's long, plait it in a Grecian-style bun.
Wearing Vintage dress; Hannah Marshall top; Kurt Geiger boots; vintage necklace
"My festival season starts in early May, with the Live at Leeds festival, and goes on well into September. Today I am wearing my stage outfit for later: a silk chiffon dress that my aunt made in the 1970s and that she wore to festivals, and a silk top by my friend, the fashion designer Hannah Marshall.
I have learnt about successful festival dressing the hard way. You have to be prepared for all weather outcomes. At Glastonbury this year I wore leather shorts and was so hot I nearly fainted in the dance tent. I am very pale, so I always wear a giant fedora to cover my face from the sun. Bob, my bandmate, says I have a face like a chameleon; I either pile on the make-up or wear none at all."
Veronica So 25, singer in Teeth and the editor of the fashion and technology magazine L_A_N.
Wearing Earrings made from drinking straws; R2D2 swimsuit from Black Milk Clothing; Topshop shorts; Wolford tights; Hogan boots.
Top tip Coloured wigs to cover dirty hair, and alien eye sunglasses for tired eyes.
"My clothes are my armour at music festivals. I use my giant vintage parka as a sleeping bag and silver Dr Marten boots to protect me from the mud. I wear coloured wigs to cover my hair when it gets dirty and neon body paint as camouflage.
For the video for our current single, Carebears , we asked our fans to record themselves singing on their webcams in their bedrooms. They wore novelty sunglasses and cyber-geek outfits. My favourite glasses are my 'alien eye' ones that I picked up in So-High Soho, the best fancy dress shop in London. We recently played in Philadelphia at a July 4 festival called Making Time. I wore my alien eye sunglasses, this R2D2 swimsuit that I'm wearing today, which is by an Australian brand called Black Milk Clothing, and Wolford tights with a sci-fi grid pattern on them."
Top tip Bring a sweater.
Wearing Betsey Johnson sunglasses; Alexander McQueen jacket; John Paul Gaultier dress; Topshop bag; Vivienne Westwood boots; vintage rings; Chanel necklace.
"Festivals give you the perfect excuse to dress up. When Scissor Sisters and Franz Ferdinand covered Bowie's Suffragette City at V Festival in 2005, I joined them onstage dressed as Carmen Miranda, with a bowl of plastic fruit on my head. The first festival I went to was Woodstock in 1994, a few miles from the house where I grew up in New York State. I was 13; I saw Green Day and Porno for Pyros. Bob Dylan walked right past me; it was mind-blowing and from that moment on I was hooked.
The weather is always colder than you think it's going to be at festivals. I see girls squashed into a crochet bikini, stumbling around on platforms, and shivering in the rain. It is not a cute look. My Vivienne Westwood Pirate boots work in all types of weather and still look hot."
Top tip Leave your best dresses at home, and have fun with accessories.
Wearing Vintage faux-fur gilet and boots; Urban Outfitters shorts, belt and top; Alter Ego black feathered epaulette, worn as necklace; H&M feather earrings; Hannah Warner and YSL rings; Mulberry Alexa bag.
"My advice to anyone going to a festival, especially in Britain, is take as many layers as you can carry. American Apparel is great for leggings and hoodies. And take your wellies. Hunter do the most fashionable ones and you can dress them up with knee-high socks.
I am always in awe of Florence Welch, from Florence and the Machine, who manages to look effortlessly stylish whenever she's backstage. Accessories made from feathers or sequins add fun to any outfit. The piece I am wearing today is by Alter Ego; they have a stall at most of the big festivals. Every summer you notice a trend developing throughout the festival season. This year the emerging festival trend is American Indian-style headdresses. You can get good ones by Bitching & Junkfood from Urban Outfitters and Topshop.
Bestival on the Isle of White is famous for its fancy-dress themes; I love seeing all the revellers getting off the ferry on Monday morning with muddy fairy wings. This year the theme is 'Rockstars and Divas.'"
Sam Hall 26, DJ and TV presenter.
Top tip Embrace bohemia! Festivals give you the perfect excuse to unleash your inner hedonist.
Wearing One Vintage dress and NHS crutches
"I am predominantly a festival DJ so this is my busiest time of the year. This summer, for example, I am DJing everywhere, from the Lake of Stars festival in Malawi to the Reading and Leeds festivals. To help me keep track of where I have been, I always dress for the occasion. At Playground Weekender in Australia, which is set in a breathtaking canyon, I threaded fairy lights and fresh jasmine flowers in my hair, and when I DJed in Shanghai, I wore an antique headdress designed for an Oriental opera.
Although I play with my look, I do have a basic festival uniform, which comprises Hunter wellies, or chunky biker boots, with bare tanned legs, a sturdy party frock, usually vintage, and a gentleman's Barbour jacket with deep pockets for stashing fluorescent paint. My festival icons are Marianne Faithfull and Stevie Nicks, circa 1970. Everything seemed so natural and effortless back then. I think my best festival memory was swimming under the full moon in the lake at the Secret Garden Party, but that didn't involve any clothes at all."
Top tip Embrace bohemia! Festivals give you the perfect excuse to unleash your inner hedonist.
Wearing One Vintage dress and NHS crutches
"I am predominantly a festival DJ so this is my busiest time of the year. This summer, for example, I am DJing everywhere, from the Lake of Stars festival in Malawi to the Reading and Leeds festivals. To help me keep track of where I have been, I always dress for the occasion. At Playground Weekender in Australia, which is set in a breathtaking canyon, I threaded fairy lights and fresh jasmine flowers in my hair, and when I DJed in Shanghai, I wore an antique headdress designed for an Oriental opera.
Although I play with my look, I do have a basic festival uniform, which comprises Hunter wellies, or chunky biker boots, with bare tanned legs, a sturdy party frock, usually vintage, and a gentleman's Barbour jacket with deep pockets for stashing fluorescent paint. My festival icons are Marianne Faithfull and Stevie Nicks, circa 1970. Everything seemed so natural and effortless back then. I think my best festival memory was swimming under the full moon in the lake at the Secret Garden Party, but that didn't involve any clothes at all."
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