The wireless festival in Hyde Park, London.

There’s nothing like a star to help you discover the last trends, so last weekend, I went to the wireless festival in London Hyde Park, 5 minutes away from Oxford Street, on Friday night to check out Gossip’s and Pink’s outfits for inspiration for future photo shoots for Stand Out modelling agency.

And hell I was not disappointed! The first artist who sang was the group Gossip, the singer, Beth Ditto, ravished me by her deep and awesome voice. The lesbian outspokenly supported LGBT and feminist causes on stage and grasped the audience’s attention by her noticeable stage attitudes and dances as well as her unique image. While on stage, she was wearing a tight black dress with spikes on top matching her eyebrows’ make-up. Now what is most interesting about the character is that Beth is very supportive of positive body image and does not seem to have any complex though her BMI definitely stands above the normal weight standard. Nevertheless, I read on Wiki (best source ever, to take with a pinch of salt) that “she was featured in London as the cover model for the premiere of Love magazine” and that she released her fashion collection a year ago. The thing is I think it is very good for women to have other references than size zero models, but here, one might be careful not to go from one extreme to the other. Indeed, promoting other sizes than models’ is very good but we definitely need to avoid promoting obesity, since this would do our girls no good either. Anyway, there’s no denying her fabulous voice and interesting stage show, whenever she comes back, I will be there.

Talking about extremes, Pink headlined the wireless festival last Friday night with an amazing live! I knew from a previous experience that Pink knows how to entertain her audience but it didn’t prevent me from being in awe. From the beginning until the end, she gave herself 100% and offered her fans all her energy. Born for the stage, she isn’t scared of using every possible means to have us gasping and panting for breath! At 8.30pm exactly, a crane brought a huge square box, which looked like a present at least 65ft above the audience with balloons under it. Of course, when they pop, Pink flies down on the stage wearing golden bird wings. You simply can’t believe your eyes!

The wonderful and playful stage setting also ravishes you. Toboggans, fun stairs, carousels, roundabouts… You feel like you’re in fun land! As far as fashion is concerned, she changed outfit a couple of times, revealing more of her body each time. She has a style of her own, using feathers, rhinestones and diverse fabrics. She does not have any weight complex and she should not as she is thin and muscular. One of the best examples we could give our teens. She is very healthy, and she needs it considering the huge effort she makes to give her audience satisfaction.

During the show, she asked us to put our hands up, then she entered a plastic ball and rolled on our hands. Even closer to her public at the end, she hovered above us suspended by wires, touched our hands and went on singing and giving us the best she had. Not only is she closed to her audience, but she is also close to her musicians, dancers, singers and acrobats. A fantastic show, both for eyes and ears!

Written by Anne de France

Special thanks are due to Nancy who took all the beautiful pictures!

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