Food has been the key inspiration for many micro trends this year. In the beauty world as of late, fruit forward nail art, latte/cappuccino make-up and doughnut glow skin hacks have taken over Youtube channels. Brands are creating accessories with watermelon purses, fruit-shaped crystal clutches, tapas tanks, and Aperol-spritz sunglasses for the beach. Just like Dolce & Gabbana, J Crew., and Moschino becomes hot brands for grocery prints for their hot selling items. Tomato Girl’s European travel vibes and lemon girl’s summertime energy has taken over TikTok and Reels. Every cool and contemporary brand is encouraging us to wear our girl who cooks dinner well on our sleeves, literally. Food prints are for fun, playful and joyous girls and Uber cool guys, for some the joy of grocery print clothing is having a fun personality. After all, we all love to see martini up on T-shirts, lemonade print dresses and cocktail prints on PJs, it says a lot more about personal mood than florals, plaids or even leopard prints. People who love food are generally happy, playful and bright people. It’s another way of playing with someone’s five senses. Food evokes taste, literally and figuratively. There’s no better place for a girl to flaunt her taste with both – food and style. More than social media, the recent food-centric pieces one can spot are on the runway. This likely influenced the popularity of the grocery-girl aesthetic across fast-fashion and ready-to wear clothing. But platforms like Instagram and Pinterest have also shifted power towards their consumers by hashtagging their food prints for widespread.
Coming from the street style and heading for the high fashion runways, the grocery girl aesthetic is not trickling down anymore. When fashion seasons come back brands are including their research on social media and what’s trending the most on Instagram, as in really what high-fashion giants are getting inspired by is user-generated content on the internet. Micro influencers and what they wear on the streets and get photographed in, have begun to change the narratives of the next big fashion. In the case of grocery girls, social media influencers are hyped with food trends that end up on everything from caps, T-shirts, and hoodies to casual cotton pants and co-ords. It’s like food influencers posting videos of their grocery shopping in cute fruit & food print dresses so everyone is doing the same. Food as fashion has changed the Landscape of clothing and the way we have fun with dressing up. Fashion has always taken itself very seriously with silhouettes and trends but post-pandemic in recent years, mainstream brands also letting their hair down to have some fun. Everything is getting a bit lighter which means this monsoon and fall it’s all about serving your flavour. Shop some grocery-printed outfits and accessories to bring out your inner grocery girl this season.