Festival fashion rule number one: your clothes should look like a passport to a sex city, even after you’ve done loads of K in a muddy field, stayed up all night and not washed, and are covered in bodily fluids. Otherwise them there threads are just prison bars locking you out from fun times.

Willum, 20, stock room supervisor
Vice: What’s the worst outfit you’ve seen at Leeds?
Willum: Horrible sheepskin coats, I’m not loving them.
What’s the best outfit you’ve seen?
Skinheads.
How would you describe your style?
A skinhead.
Without actually having a skinhead?
Yeah, I guess.
What bands have you come to see?
Ian Brown, La Roux, and Municipal Waste.

Anna, 23, fashion design intern
Vice: What’s the best outfit you’ve seen over the weekend?
Anna: I haven’t seen very many good ones to be honest. It’s a bit grimy.
What’s the worst you’ve seen?
Too much face paint and horrible scary masks.
How would you describe your style?
A mess, a bit of everything. I don’t really know, lots of layers and long t-shirts.
Who influences the way you dress?
Just cool people I see around, not really celebrities.
What bands have you come to see?
I came with the XX, giving out these t-shirts.

Stephen, 24, surveyor
Vice: What’s the best outfit you’ve seen over the weekend?
Stephen: I would say mine, but my mates dressed as one of the Teletubbies, he’s better.
What’s the worst?
I just saw some guy wearing some pants and that was horrible.
How would you describe your style?
Crabtastic.
What’s the best band you’ve seen all weekend?
The Gaslight Anthem.

James, 20, student
Vice: What’s the best outfit you’ve seen at Leeds?
James: Loads of great checked shirts.
Worst outfit?
I’ve seen some boys dressed up as fairies, that was pretty bad.
What bands are you here to see?
I came to see Pulled Apart by Horses, Grammatics and a few joke bands as well.
Who would you say influences the way you dress?
I see what I like and I buy it.

Sophie, 26, fashion PR
Vice: What’s the worst outfit you’ve seen at Leeds?
Sophie: A guy dressed as Wally [from Where's Wally?].
What or who influences your style?
Grunge, the nineties, Kristen Stewart and Kurt Cobain.
What bands are you here to see?
Radiohead, Bloc Party, and Vampire Weekend.

Paul, undisclosed age, event organiser
Vice: What’s the worst outfit you’ve seen at Leeds?
Paul: Superman with his underpants on the outside.
Who influences the way you dress?
Marc Bolan and Jim Morrison.
How would you describe your style?
Cunt.
I see that.
WORDS: KYLIE GRIFFITHS
PHOTOS: ZOE JENKIN











Reader Comments
September 9th, 2009
11:35 am
you missed out on the guy with the thong on. hot shit. new fashion.
September 9th, 2009
5:24 pm
i was there and everyone was dressed like shit. Absolute load of style - less pricks.
September 9th, 2009
5:24 pm
all girls look hot with wellies on but all boys look dumb.
September 9th, 2009
5:25 pm
awww how cute is james in his jumper! I think I love you.
September 10th, 2009
9:46 am
I hate those peudoscary masks/trippy balaclavas. What are they playing at? They must have thought right were so edgy by trying to totally fuck people up buy having wierd trippy faces. They just come off as pussy cunts.
September 10th, 2009
12:27 pm
Nothing pulls together Paul the organizer’s outfit better than his dirtbag mustache.
September 10th, 2009
12:27 pm
well yeah they all look british, that’s for sure.
September 10th, 2009
12:27 pm
i’ll describe your style. crabtastic and muddy as fuck after i tackle your ass in a puddle.
September 10th, 2009
12:28 pm
english people are dorky as fuck
September 10th, 2009
12:28 pm
I would fuck the Kristen Stewart wannabe, but that’s just because I wanna fuck Kristen Steart. No I didn’t see that twilight movie.
September 16th, 2009
1:48 pm
Couldn’t you have picked interesting looks ?
lame