This year, the music at Lollapalooza India was loud, but the fashion was louder—and far more deliberate than the flower-crown era ever allowed. Walking through the festival grounds at Mahalaxmi Racecourse this weekend felt like flipping through a chaotic moodboard in real time: rave-ready streetwear collided with crafty crochet, Y2k references popped up in flashes, and somehow, a handful of brave souls even committed to leg-warmers despite the weather in Mumbai.
What stood out most wasn’t any single trend but the amount of effort on display. Many attendees had built their looks from scratch: stitched, layered, and thoughtfully styled rather than pulled off a rack. Low-rise minis came with waist chains and belts. Cargo silhouettes were exaggerated and heavy. Crochet appeared in tops, skirts, and even headpieces.
When it came to beauty, faces were dusted with glitter and dotted with rhinestones. And then there were the hairstyles: bleached, braided, corded. But the style that stood out the most was the mullet, in all its deliberately unpolished yet glorious forms. Long, short, modern, faded, shaggy—you name it, and it was there.
All put together, the crowd read like a collage of references and identities. It wasn’t about chasing trends so much as committing to a point of view.
Below, we stopped some stylish attendees to ask them what they have on—and how they put it together.
