At Lollapalooza 2025, Micro Shorts and Crochet Camis Were the Look

Coachella has boho chic, Glastonbury’s got cooler-than-you edge. Lollapalooza? Tiny, tiny sequin and animal print shorts paired with muddy white sneakers. From last Thursday, July 31, through Sunday, August 3, the four-day summer festival drew an amalgam of all-day ravers and pop devotees to Chicago’s Grant Park. With headliners including Sabrina Carpenter, A$AP Rocky, Olivia Rodrigo, Tyler, The Creator, and much more, it’s no surprise attendees matched the energy and scope by way of method-dressing, coordinating sets, and glitter galore.

“It all feels like everyone’s personal style mixed with what’s trending,” Aliyah’s Interlude tells Teen Vogue. “People are putting their f-----g best foot forward. This is very much fashion week. The girls are dressed up, and it’s not just the outfits. It’s the hair, it’s the makeup. The girls are coming correct to Lollapalooza.”

There were the ravers, with ultra-tinted sunglasses and scarves wrapped over their faces for shade, clad in head-to-toe black and traveling in pairs or small groups. Whole friend groups were going to see a single musician, very clearly laid out through their clothes and color schemes of choice. The girlies there for Katseye, Sabrina, and all the other pop darlings wore ruffles on ruffles and a palette of pinks and pastels, glitter painted along their shoulders and cheekbones. “It seems like either people go for the bandana or the bow,” singer The Dare tells Teen Vogue. Meanwhile, artists like Bladee, 2Hollis, and Jane Remover drew in a moodier-yet-equally-rowdy group of shaggy home-cut hair, plain white tees, and fitted jeans in 80-degree weather — like a Hedi boy on his day off.

One particular trio of rising college freshmen we met were each in attendance for a different musician, distinct in their respective uniforms yet unifying in overall style. Phoebe Tewizhell, 18, was there for Tyler, The Creator, and her sequined green and black set visually alluded to Chromakopia. Charline Bovier, 18, came for Luke Combs and donned a summery loose-knit gold top, raw-hemmed white skirt, and, of course, cowboy boots. Lastly, Caroline Bridgeman, 18, was most looking forward to Dom Dolla, wearing a Jaded London top, oversized sunglasses, tiny shorts, and a jumbo studded belt. Again and again, camis, sequins, and microshorts popped up in many outfits, often all at once.

“I think music in a lot of ways is a real way that this [generation] defines themselves. It’s what they’re listening to as much as what they’re wearing,” Carey Krug, Chief Marketing Officer of Abercrombie and Fitch Co., which oversees Hollister, tells us. This year, the brand was an official partner for the festival and its dozens of aftershows across local venues — which was clear as countless Lolla-goers donned its babydoll tops and microskirts from its 2000s vault.

Throughout the four days on the (very muddy) grounds, outfits varied depending on who was headlining, but they often reflected a sense of part-comfort and part-excuse for the wearer to pull something a tad more revealing from the back of their closet. “There’s an aspect of fun to this festival. Because it’s in the city, there’s a different energy that’s a little less of a try-hard and a little more of a ‘how do I reflect my personal style in this moment and be comfy?’” Megan Brophy, Hollister and Abercrombie’s Vice President of Marketing, observes.

Though certain garments and accessories repeatedly made an appearance, maybe Lollapalooza’s style identity is less a look than it is a vibe — an impulse to embody one’s favorite anthems and look good while doing it. Or perhaps, in the words of The Dare, it’s just outright “chic, hot, swag.”