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England’s Glastonbury Festival celebrates its 40th birthday this year, and as per usual, thousands of people will be making the pilgrimage to the muddy fields of Somerset in southern England to take in its incomparably freewheeling music scene. Venetia Dearden, however, will not be among them. For the past six years, the Somerset-born photog has been shooting Glasto-goers at her studio on-site, and now that she’s compiled the images in her new book Glastonbury—Another Stage, Dearden figures it’s time to move on. “I’ve been going to Glasto off and on since I was eight,” she explained at last night’s party celebrating the new tome at the Milk Studios penthouse. “I worked there, I had mad times with friends there, I shot inside a waterlogged tepee. I think I’ve done it.”
Dearden wasn’t the only native at the bash. Party host Mulberry, which sponsored the publication of Glastonbury, was also born in Somerset, just a year after the festival kicked off. And at Milk, the brand had imported the Glasto experience to the Meatpacking District—minus the famous mud, that is. Mano de Dios, Chairlift, and Kelis put on mini-concerts for the likes of Agyness Deyn, Leigh Lezark, and Chanel Iman. “You have to go to Glastonbury at least once,” admonished Mulberry creative director Emma Hill, who’s been three times. “Get those wellies out. You’ll have the time of your life.”
Meanwhile, uptown at Good Units, the Hudson Hotel’s double-decker underground party space, VMan celebrated the launch of its Scandinavia issue with a party and runway show for some 20 Scandinavian labels—including Soulland, Stærk, and Cheap Monday. “It’s almost like a fashion happening,” explained the magazine’s editor, Stephen Gan. The catwalk-in-a-nightclub’s throwback vibe went nicely with some of the early-nineties-inspired looks, and this particular défilé came with a twist: a runway setup with a screen in the middle that allowed a second model in an identical outfit to step in for the first one mid-lap. Right before the eyes of Kelly Rowland, Phillip Lim, and many others, a skinny boy got buff, a light-skinned catwalker transformed into a darker-skinned one, and Pat Cleveland’s daughter, Anna van Ravenstein, became her mother. It may be a girl’s worst nightmare, but it also made for a pretty ingenious—and, given Pat’s trademark runway theatrics, fabulous—finale.
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—Maya Singer (Mulberry) and Darrell Hartman (VMan)
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