
CNN
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As the second weekend of Coachella nears, there is a sense that fashion at the annual music and arts festival is different from that of recent editions.
The shift is perhaps epitomized by Vanessa Hudgens — once dubbed the “Queen of Coachella” — whose boho-chic aesthetic, long synonymous with the festival held in hot Indio, California, made way for the kind of pared-back, anodyne approach now adopted by many of today’s attendees.
This may be partly due to a desire to blend in: Swaths of celebrities, including Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner, as well as Justin and Hailey Bieber, mingled in the crowd with regular festival guests. But there were also…