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    • Date: 22.08.25

    Thirst: Tasting Notes

    Flavour is everywhere. It’s edible, aesthetic, and endlessly inspiring.

    Thirst: Tasting Notes is our new series exploring how taste can transform into a visual language. It’s about showing how a tomato, a pickle, or a strawberry can be more than food – they can be cultural cues, design inspiration, and brand storytelling tools.

    Welcome to the Garden Party – where flavour leaves the plate and takes centre stage in fashion, culture, and creativity. Think greenhouse core meets runway chic: everyday flavours transformed into objects of desire. Summer produce reimagined with a touch of sparkle, gloss, and intrigue, blurring the line between what you eat, what you drink, and what you wear.

    Step into the flavourscape of summer…

    Think gingham sundresses, tomato-red cardigans, and lipstick that dares you to take another sip – sweet, sharp, and impossibly fresh. Imagine late-summer light spilling over a garden table, bowls of glossy red tomatoes stacked like rubies, and basil sprigs styled as feathered accessories. Picture fabrics that shimmer with the same sheen as tomato skins, retro cardigans embroidered with ripe fruit, and a colour palette so bold it feels alive.

    This is flavour reimagined as fashion: sharp yet sun-warmed, sweet yet savoury, playful yet powerful. It’s about taking something familiar and giving it a runway-ready twist. A reminder that when flavour becomes aesthetic, it stops being background and starts being the statement piece.

    Forget Brat Summer – this is Brine Summer, where freshness comes with a tang. The garden is alive with sharp crunches, zingy brine, and the cool snap of cucumber spirals.

    Think cucumber-green silks that catch the light like liquid, rhinestone-encrusted gherkins reimagined as jewellery, and lime-green manicures that make holding a jar feel like a statement pose. This aesthetic is sour and refreshing, with just the right edge of irreverence. Playful enough to make you smile, but bold enough to stick.

    Pickle Me Up captures the spirit of brine as fashion: a reset button for the senses, a hit of sharpness that cuts through the sweet, and a cultural nod to the chaos of craving something unexpected. Fresh enough to cleanse the palate, sour enough to keep you hooked – this is summer’s freshest style statement.

    Sweet as Strawbs is sugar and sunshine wrapped up in a pink bow. The season’s perfect matcha – a swirl of ripe strawberry sweetness and earthy green calm, poured into cups that feel more like love letters

    Picture glossy strawberries spilling out of retro picnic baskets, strawberry blush layered with pistachio green on a catwalk, or sequined gowns that glimmer like ripe fruit under spotlights. It’s innocence reframed as fashion – playful without being childish, sophisticated without being serious.

    Sweet as Strawbs is an aesthetic where nostalgia and novelty collide. It nods to childhood memories of strawberry ice creams and market stalls but spins them into 2025 sophistication – pastel palettes, refined pairings, and a touch of flirty irreverence. A strawberry isn’t just something you eat; it’s a cultural motif, a moodboard, a design cue.

    What does this mean for your brand?

    This isn’t about tomatoes, pickles, or strawberries. This is flavour as a fashion drop – seasonal codes, style cues, moments that shift culture.

    For brands, that’s the power play. When you treat flavour as aesthetic, it stops being just a taste profile and starts being a cultural code your audience can recognise, wear, and share.

    Use edible aesthetics as a strategy. Build hype like fashion. Signal cool like streetwear. And make flavour the hero of your brand story in a way that feels fresh, modern, and culturally irresistible.

    Has this sparked an idea for your brand? We would love to hear from you, get in touch: newbrief@thirstcraft.com

    Welcome to the Garden Party – where flavour leaves the plate and takes centre stage in fashion, culture, and creativity.
    Welcome to the Garden Party – where flavour leaves the plate and takes centre stage in fashion, culture, and creativity.

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