Wouldn’t it be useful if you could somehow get some of your five a day from your wardrobe? Creative director Jonathan Anderson certainly thinks so – his latest collection for Loewe was laden with as many veggies as your average Californian health restaurant. And while the crops in question (turnips, carrots and radishes) were closer to a medieval peasant’s diet than classic green juice ingredients, they have never looked more modern. Particularly when modelled by Emily Blunt at her recent premiere for The Fall Guy .
Her produce print was undoubtedly head-turning, at the same time adding the perfect pop of colour to her high-necked top and baggy trousers. A number of fashion commentators questioned why we hadn’t been swapping florals for veggies all along. The Loewe collection, which debuted in March, also featured a bag, hand-beaded and shaped like a bunch of asparagus, while at the Met Gala , actor Mike Faist wore a custom tuxedo from the label with a radish embroidered on the lapel.
Loewe may be the leader of the vegetable pack, but it is far from alone. Radishes feature unexpectedly heavily in jewellery – French label Cilea have some pretty ceramic offerings in clip ons, as do Wolf & Moon. Hot on the heels of last year’s “Tomato Girl” summer, French brand Sézane is back with a caprese salad-like shirt, while Alémais is selling canned tomatoes on a designer budget.
New York-based label Collina Strada not only printed tomatoes on trousers but constructed .