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Fruit Fantasies: How the ‘Strawberry Girl’ and the romanticization of fruit aesthetics create escapist fantasies

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  The Cherry Girl is sweet and mesmerizing. She can be seen dawning cherry red lipstick, with cherry red nails, and cherry red dreams. She might take it literally and sport cherry earrings or cherry print clothes. Her cherry taste extends to her lifestyle as well. She probably listens to Lana Del Rey, who herself has a song titled “Cherry,” to complete the lore of her sultry fantasy of a fruit inspired girl. The point is, the Cherry Girl is fully dedicated to a fashion and lifestyle aesthetic that derived from something as innocuous and unsuspecting as a cherry. The Cherry aesthetic, however, is one of only a few fruit trends to take the world by storm. With the ability of social media to curate aesthetics, with apps such as pinterest, and the ability to popularize trends at a rapid rate (thanks to apps like Tik Tok), fruit themed aesthetics have taken Gen Z by a storm. In this article, I’m going to examine the desire to attach our fashion/lifestyle to fruits and the ethical implic...
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What do certain fruits signify?

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Fruit is more than just a nutritional food for consumption- it’s a status that society and culture assigns value to. While immersing myself in the world of fashion, I noticed how different fruit motifs elicit certain feelings and create references beyond their identity as a fruit or an item of clothing. In this article, I’m going to break down what I think certain fruits signify when they are printed on clothes and accessorized. Apple- Studious Apples and their connotations can fluctuate depending on whomever you ask. Apples are often interpreted in a biblical sense as forbidden fruit, tempting and successfully seducing Eve in the Garden of Eden. However, when it comes to Apple's fashion accessories, their meaning, at least to me, alters completely. Whereas the biblical apple might represent something more salacious, the apple as an accessory to me signifies an almost childlike idealization of the study aesthetic.  There are several reasons for this association. The prime reason fo...
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