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Tomatoes and sovereignty have always been intertwined. So, what else should TikTok’s reigning queen, Sofia Richie Grainge, do during her globe-trotting tour to the cultural capitals for fashion month than the platform’s micro aesthetic du jour; the tomato girl aesthetic.
The bona fide ‘It’ girl has been christened as the acme of candid cool, with the 24-year-old’s French Riviera nuptials to music executive Eliot Grainge cementing her status as the poster child for the quiet luxury redux.
Yet, with Richie Grainge well aware of her stature amongst TikTok’s subjects, it’s clear the newlywed is subtly displaying her sartorial allegiance to the platform’s biggest fashion trend through her front-row spectacles.
For the uninitiated, adherents of the Tomato Girl aesthetic propose languid shades of red inspired by every type of tomato growing along the vine—heirloom, sun-dried, vodka-infused—as the bedrock of your wardrobe.
However, rather than saturating herself in the traffic-stopping hue, Richie Grainge has instead chosen to subtly inject the colour in understated ways. A wise styling choice considering the frenetic excitement around the trend has already started to subdue.
In New York, Richie Grainge looked to a pair of Roma-coloured ballet flats from Manolo Blahnik to mainline her monochromatic Proenza Schouler strapless midi dress.
Elsewhere in Manhattan, the Gen-Z tastemaker paired a white Prada smock dress with a rich ‘Black Krim’ coloured Hermès Birkin and velvet Mary Janes; perhaps a precursor to the red Prada turtleneck she sported to attend the Italian luxuriate’s show in Milan.
Of course, this saturation of red across fashion week’s front row comes by no means of a surprise, with the fiery colour a motif seen on the Fall/Winter 2024 runways. But, despite the shade’s seasonal appeal, red is continuing to paint the town.
If you’re yet to embrace the merits of the heart-pumping, confidence-boosting style, fear not. Richie Grainge is proving that it’s the delicate exhibits of red-coloured styles that make them the most impactful.
Curious where to start? Ahead, GRAZIA’s definitive guide to the red accents to incorporate into your wardrobe. (Plus, a refresher on what exactly the ‘Tomato Girl’ aesthetic is and how it captured the zeitgeist).
