Welcome to ELLE’s summer festival guide

Bring on the mud. Your favourite excuse to camp out under the stars with 30,000 strangers and weave floral garlands through dry-shampooed hair has arrived.

By ELLE UK and NonePublished: 14 April 2011

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Its festival time.

As emblematic of British summertime as Pimms, and far more exuberant, we know that festivals are all about the fashion (okaymusic too).

Get ready for ELLE to deliver the freshest fashion and news from all the best fests, starting this weekend at Coachella and finishing in five months at Bestival.

Still not sure of your festival plans? Brush up on the options in our guide to the summers finest.

But before that, take festival fashion inspiration from our edit of last years best-dressed. A bit of fringing, a bouquet of statement sunnies, and barely a welly in sight... its music to our eyes.

Coachella, 15-17 April, California

Those trekking to Indio, California for this weekends Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will take in Kings of Leon, Kanye West and The Strokes against a staggering desert backdrop. That, and Mulberry is hosting one helluva backyard barbecue for all the VIPs. Check back for all our coverage on Monday morning.

All Tomorrows Parties (ATP), 13-15 May, England

East End cool kids head to Butlins for a hip take on the holiday camp experience, with tunes from Animal Collective, Beach House and Big Boi.

Primavera, 26-28 May, Barcelona

Fleet Foxes, Mogwai, Girl Talk, James Blake and more jet to Barcelona for a music festival with a city-break feel.

Isle of Wight, 10-12 June, England

Get a ticket to Ryde on the Isle o

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