The fashion, food, and beauty industries are becoming more intertwined, as brand and collection launches become increasingly immersive. Scrolling through social media and flipping through Vogue, stylish people are sitting down to dramatically set tables as often as fashion show front rows. Chefs are dipping into modeling and donning fashionable workwear.
Until recently, it seemed that fashion and beauty were industries hostile to food, focused more on as little food consumption as possible (the slogan Don't Feed the Models comes to mind). Now studios are springing up globally specifically catering to the fashion and beauty set and collaborations between food and fashion brands, peddling not merch, but serious collections. Food-themed accessories have moved beyond kitsch. Moschino is selling a bread-shaped faux leather clutch bag for $1495 USD. A Saint Laurent leather takeaway bag purse retails for $1900 USD.
The intersection of fashion and food has provoked no small amount of recent commentary, such as an exhibition at the Fashion Institute of Technology, which showed clothing printed with food themes and fashioned from fabrics derived from food, like bananas and pineapples, as pioneers from both industries start to discuss how waste from one can become materials for the other.
Throughout fashion, food is trending. I spoke with some of the most recognizable faces operating in this curious intersection.