Goodwood Revival 2011

Whilst London encouraged a focus on womenswear fashion this weekend, 60 miles away in Chichester, the focus was classic automotive design. Despite their disparity in subject matter, both rely heavily on aesthetics and attract hoards of stalwart enthusiasts. This year, West Sussex's Goodwood Revival became the most valuable classic motor-racing event in the world, with over £500m worth of vehicles competing. It is not the money that attracts the crowds but the spectacle and the chance to play a part in arguably the largest and most impressive period theatrical production around. The annual event, held each September at the circuit on the grounds of Lord March's Goodwood Estate, is the world's largest and most respected historic motor race meet. More than a 'car show', it involves races of the world's most important historic racing cars, recreating the golden age of the 1950s and 1960s.

It was the location itself and the motoring enthusiasms of Lord March himself that spawned the event back in 1998. The circuit was mothballed in 1966 and left untouched providing the perfect stage for the event. Despite its significance in the motor racing calendar it is the people (both their appearance and the attitude) that make the event standout. The dress code: period suits, tweeds or racing overalls for the gentlemen and hats, stockings and fur for the ladies. No detail inside the event is overlooked: cash machines are hidden in red telephone boxes and Tesco built an authentic, standalone 1960s style (inside and out) store. This year played host to six World War Two spitfires that would periodically take off and perform Battle of Britain style acrobatics whilst visitors arrived in classic cars.

The accompanying gallery gives an insight to 2011's Revival, covered exclusively for AnOther by photographer and Revival regular Ben Dunbar-Brunton.