After a few uncertain years throughout the pandemic, in 2022, Notting Hill Carnival was back with a bang, as celebrations kicked off once more across West London. This yr, nonetheless, was “busier than ever” in response to Dazed photographer Rae Martins Ashton, who headed into straight into the motion with their analogue camera of their bag. 

Martins was there to capture one of the best street style and sweetness looks from the 2023 edition of Carnival, and as per usual, the people piling into Ladbroke Grove and beyond didn’t disappoint. Alongside a sea of Jamaican football jerseys and battered denim jeans and jorts were an entire bunch of barely-there looks made up of bikini tops, cut-out body-suits, and bum-skimming minis.

As at all times, though, it was the Mas looks that were the standout. Throughout the streets, standing on top of partitions, and dancing on the parade of floats that wound through the borough’s streets, performers and partygoers stepped into intricate beaded and crystallised looks trimmed with kaleidoscopic feathers and finished with glittering masks as they got here out of their masses to have fun Black British culture for one more yr.

Click through the gallery above for a more in-depth have a look at one of the best street style from Notting Hill Carnival 2023.