Coachella 2019: Best-dressed attendees from weekend one at the California festival

The annual music bash in the desert has begun

(Rex Features)

The glossiest, most Valencia-filtered festival in the world finally got under way on Friday 12 April.

Every spring, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival sees swathes of models, actors and social media darlings swan around the Palm Springs desert resort in California to watch some of the biggest names in music.

This year’s headline acts include Childish Gambino, Ariana Grande and Tame Impala, Solange, Weezer and The 1975.

But Coachella is about so much more than musical prowess.

Given the annual celebration takes place in sweltering heat, it offers festival goers an unbridled opportunity to be more playful with their outfits than they would in, say, a muddy field in south-west England.

Love it or hate it, Coachella is set to saturate your Instagram feeds for the next 72 hours – and again from Friday 19 April, when the second weekend begins.

But all that sunshine and sequin action makes for some rather dazzling sartorial documentation, see why by scrolling through our gallery above of the best-dressed attendees from weekend one at Coachella 2019.