EXPRESSION ON EVERY LEVEL AT SPLENDOUR
MUSIC festivals have become a home for the weird, wild and wonderful, and one Splendour in the Grass fan is happy to embody just that.
Fashion designer Clancy Heidrich, 23, who wowed fellow attendees with her brightly coloured creations, said each one had an odd beginning.
“So I kind of came up with all three of them from some dreams I was having, that sounds really kooky but it was something that I really loved,” she said.
“I basically had a few fabrics and didn’t know what to do with them, and then it just came to me in a dream.
“I woke up and wrote them in my phone, and then just started draping the material on my sewing dummy and went from there.”
Ms Heidrich, who has travelled from Sydney for the last four years to attend the festival, said the event was a rare opportunity to be herself.
“Splendour is a chance for me to express myself in a safe way, because obviously when you’re walking around you get weird looks and some abuse,” she said.
“It isn’t exactly socially acceptable to be out in some of the outfits I wear.”
Splendour in the Grass drew massive crowds over the weekend with a reported 35,000 people attending each day, up from last year’s 32,500.