Revolve Festival, now in its eighth year, continues to be a hot ticket during Coachella’s party-filled first weekend.
It was the biggest celebrity draw, held on Saturday at an 80,000-square-foot outdoor venue in Thermal, Calif., bringing out Cardi B, Lil Wayne, Tyga — all three of whom performed — Lisa, Wiz Khalifa, Teyana Taylor, Normani, Chris Brown, Cara Delevingne, Taylor Hill, Shanina Shaik, Becky G, Dwyane Wade, Alex Consani and Julia Fox.
Revolve’s Michael Mente and Raissa Gerona mingled about, also joined by Emma Roberts, Victor Cruz, Karrueche Tran and adored “Love Island” couple Leah Kateb and Miguel Harichi. There were a slew of rising young actors and singers, including Ariana Greenblatt, Liza Soberano, Madison Pettis, Ashlee Keating, Princess Sab Zada, Maggie Lindemann and Neela Jolene. And, as always, the roster of influencers was stacked, with Alix Earle and NFL boyfriend Braxton Berrios; sisters Dixie and Charli D’Amelio; Josh Richards; Gabriela Moura; Griffin Johnson; Blake Gray; Landon Barker; Ellie Thumann; Gabriela Moura; Tara Mirshokraei; Luana Barron, and Nicole Williams English.
Olympic gymnast Jordan Chiles was nearly unrecognizable at first glance, sporting a head-turning look in a bikini and baggy, unbuckled denim shorts with a cowboy hat, oversized sunglasses and Timberlands.
“Congrats on everything,” Richie Shazam told her. “You’re killing it.” Chiles, part of the gold medal-winning team at the 2024 Summer Olympics, has been growing a following. “Thank you,” she beamed.
Heidi Montag, too, has been building buzz with her career renaissance — after going viral for “I’ll Do It” 15 years after its release and hitting number one on iTunes. She channeled boho-meets-rodeo in a crochet top and denim-leather trousers, arriving to the photo op with husband Spencer Pratt. Fans have been supporting the couple after the two lost their Palisades home in the L.A. fires. They were in high spirits in the desert as they posed for the flashes, with Montag fresh off her performance at Kourtney Kardashian’s Camp Poosh earlier in the day.
They arrived just in time for Cardi B’s set, who sang hit after hit while surrounded by twerking dancers as she debuted a new look from her partnership with Revolve: a skin-tight baby blue ensemble with a top with a plunging neckline, leggings, a leather jacket and feathered boots.
“We just wanted to be a little bit light, a little bit colorful, a little bit fun,” she said of the design, backstage moments after stepping off stage. “I didn’t want to give too perform-y, but I didn’t want to give too dressed — I wanted to be comfortable, because I knew I came here to shake some ass,” she smiled, with her candid and genuine nature.
“I want my clothes to fit everybody perfectly,” she went on, describing the line. “You know how everybody got their favorite tank top, they have their favorite shirt, they have their favorite blazer, they have their favorite pants, they have their favorite jeans? I want to have that product. You know what I’m saying? Of course I want to have a lot of cute things and fashion things, but I want that basic product that everybody wears every single day.”
She’s dropping her next album announcement “pretty soon,” she revealed. “I cannot wait…it’s like a big nut for me. I just cannot wait to bust it.”
A tour is coming — though not this year. But she’s started prepping, and once the album is out, she’ll have more time to focus on training and building stamina, she said. “I feel like I’ve been a little bit stiff lately. I’ve been a little bit out of rhythm. So I cannot wait to get back and start rehearsing, start getting more flexible. I’ve been working out, but I want to be more flexible and perform better.”
She moved just fine at Revolve Fest, shaking her body as the crowd went wild. She ended her set with the hit song that started it all, “Bodak Yellow.”
“You had a good time?” she asked to cheers. “I’ll see ya later. Where the after party at?”
