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While Toronto was busy getting its own dose of festival, Governors Ball hit NYC’s neighbouring Randall’s Island Park for a three day party including headliners like Drake, Lana Del Rey and Florence + The Machine. And unlike our city-bent stylings, most attendees stuck to staples like crop tops, boho prints and denim. Others took the […]

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While Toronto was busy with Field Trip, festival season was simultaneously visiting New York for the fourth annual Governors Ball music festival. Getting bigger and better every year, the festival came through with a stellar lineup headlined by Outkast, Disclosure, Skrillex, Jack White and The Strokes, making it a must-see for indie rockers and EDM-lovers alike. Sunny skies made for a perfect weekend for the music festival hosted yearly on Manhattan-neighbouring Randall Island, making sunglasses, hats and cut-offs must-wears for the festival’s attendees.

What really caught our eye this year was the high-end accessories game. Whereas festivals are usually grounds for rough and tumble basics like cotton messenger bags and backpacks, this year’s Governors Ball 2014 attendees sported Chanel, Céline and an Olympia Le Tan milk carton minaudiere like it was no big deal. (How else to carry around your water, phone and lipstick?). We’ve rounded up the best looks of the weekend and to be honest, the bags really take the cake. Although how could we ignore the sequin dressed twins, fingernails painted as braces and the all-gold-everything get-up? Click through for the best in Governor’s Ball 2014 festival style as photographed by Sidewalk Hustle bloggess Hawley Dunbar.

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No fashion challenge is quite as sticky (literally with temperatures at Pitchfork Festival nearing 40 degrees Celsius) as dressing for a music festival. With the weather and the crowds (don’t forget the likelihood of the grass quickly turning to sludge) the list of variables to consider is a long one. From coast to coast, the music festivals of summer 2013 have taken us far and wide. We snapped an array of stylish bohemians at California’s ever-popular Coachella and hip trend-setters at Chicago’s Pitchfork. We documented country’s most fabulous at Bowmanville’s newly established Boots and Hearts festival and young trendsetters and New York’s Governor’s Ball. We’re doing a festival style roundup- taking a look back at the ensembles that had set fashion senses a-tingling.

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While Toronto’s music lovers were busy at Arts & Crafts’ Field Trip festival, New Yorkers—as well as the many whom flock to their city for summertime hangs—headed to nearby Randall Island for the third annual Governor’s Ball. As has been the trend for most of 2013 thus far, the weather didn’t cooperate, with Mother Nature hurling the side effects of tropical storm Andrea at attendees. Despite it all, festivalgoers acted as Kate Moss before them and harnessed Hunter wellie boots, stylish raincoats and 3.1 Phillip Lim T-shirts as armour. Things got messy, but it didn’t stop ‘em. It didn’t stop the myriad of A-list performers including Kanye West, Guns’ and Roses, The XX, Kendrick Lamar and Azealia Banks either.

Governor’s Ball has a nice mix of international attendees, which makes for interesting apparel choices. Take Alia from Egypt’s skeleton T-shirt or David from Columbia’s barefooted choice or Kjersti from Oslo’s low-slung peace symbol earrings as just a few examples. To capture it all, we had two photographers, Style Panelist Gabrielle Lacasse and Sidewalk Hustle‘s Hawley Dunbar snapping the Ball’s best dressed.