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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Jess Cartner-Morley

Tomato girl summer: giving la dolce vita a gen Z makeover

Jennifer Coolidge as Tanya McQuoid in The White Lotus
Jennifer Coolidge as Tanya McQuoid in The White Lotus ‘fancies herself as an Italian Brigitte Bardot’. Photograph: Fabio Lovino

Do you enjoy shopping at markets on holiday? Do you own a raffia basket bag or pair of espadrilles? Have you downloaded the Duolingo app to learn French, Spanish or Italian? If you answered yes to the above, congratulations. You are on trend for tomato girl summer.

After hot girl summer in 2019 (taking selfies in swimwear), cinnamon girl autumn in 2020 (drinking pumpkin spice lattes in cosy jumpers) and short king spring in 2022 (being a man who is not tall) comes tomato girl summer to claim the zeitgeist.

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