Eat, slay, love: New York Fashion Weeks tastiest trend is food-themed couture

They’ve got great taste.As New York’s fashion flock descends on runways and afterparties this season, one sweet theme keeps coming through: Food-themed clothes and accessories.Outside the Cult Gaia show at the American Museum of Natural History on Thursday, influencers like Coco Schiffer posed for pics with the label’s juiciest accessory: a clutch shaped like a giant cluster of grapes.It’s currently $600 at Saks — only slightly higher than the real fruit, thanks to current inflation woes.The hunger for style continued at Celine’s Wooster Street boutique, where the Paris line hosted a cocktail in honor of its Reebok collaboration… and served guests like designer Marc Jacobs and actor Dan Levy with a plate of New York hot dogs that spelled “Celine” in mustard.

This being a fashion bash, everybody took pics, but nobody took a bite.At the Public Hotel on Christie Street, designer Kate Barton paired with Elizabeth Sulcer — the stylist who helped make Bella Hadid into a true couture darling — to serve a collection of pastel tops embroidered with birthday cakes.Rachel Comey’s new Coco bag made its runway debut with a sweet surprise — pockets for Unreal’s chocolate bars and peanut butter cups.The bag’s outer metallic layer was designed to stop chocolate from melting.

(Ironically, it can also help protect GLP-1s from heat damage.)Meanwhile at the Cherry Lane Theater in the West Village, celebrities like Tom Sturridge, Sarita Choudhury and Alexa Chung munched snacks from custom-designed Dior popcorn boxes, a nod to the fashion house’s new partnership with film studio A24.“I’m taking it home,” said actress Francesa Scorsese, who tracked — the box matched her Dior sweater.And despite the jokes about models avoiding carbs like landlords avoid basic repairs, many catwalkers — including ’90s icon Karen Elson — wore Rachel Antonoff’s pasta-print pants, dresses and jackets backstage at the designer’s Webster Hall fashion show.

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