Eat, slay, love: New York Fashion Week’s tastiest trend is food-themed couture

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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.

Cult Gaia’s Grape Clutch outside the brand’s New York Fashion Week show. Getty Images

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.

Judith Leiber’s $5,695 matcha clutch, encrusted with Swarovski crystals.

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.

Celine hot dogs served up in Soho. @nssmag.com / Facebook

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.

Rachel Comey’s new Coco bag was built to stop chocolate from melting in your purse.

There’s also been a thirst for Judith Leiber’s $5,965 matcha clutch, which uses crystals instead of caffeine to hook its audience, and comes with a working straw.

But the most in-demand food accessory this season isn’t on a runway. Instead, it’s from Burger King.

The Whopper hub just dropped “Le Nuguette,” a suede bag that looks like a pile of crunchy fast food bites.

It’s adorned with bag charms inspired by dipping sauce flavors (Special Savory, Honey Mustard, Buffalo or Sweet & Sour) and limited to a drop of just 500 bags — 100 each from tomorrow, September 12 through September 16, starting at noon EST.

Burger King will release its suede Le Nuguette purse on September 12 for $3.99.

If you can click-to-buy at lenuguettebk.com fast enough, the suede micro-purse will cost the same as a four-piece nugget order — just $3.99.

Multiply that by 1,000 and you can buy the bread-inspired suede Fendi baguette that’s getting a revival thanks to stars like Olivia Wilde and Jessica Alba.

But if you spill BBQ sauce on that one, good luck…

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