{"id":1435582,"date":"2026-01-14T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1435582"},"modified":"2026-01-14T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:00:00","slug":"everythings-coming-up-cabbages-how-the-leafy-green-got-chic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1435582","title":{"rendered":"Everything\u2019s Coming Up Cabbages: How the Leafy Green Got Chic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Everything\u2019s Coming Up Cabbages: How the Leafy Green Got Chic<\/h1>\n
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By <\/span>Anna Grace Lee<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue<\/em>, October 2014<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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If cabbage needed a mascot, Gerald Stratford just might be the top candidate for the job. On Instagram, you\u2019ll find the 77-year-old proudly showing off a red cabbage from his garden while wearing a cabbage-patterned fleece jacket and hat, or penning an ode to nature\u2019s marbled marvel.<\/p>\n

Stratford, who lives in the village of Milton-under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire, England, is a beloved figure online. For an audience of about half a million people across multiple social media platforms, the retiree posts dispatches from his harvests of very large vegetables\u2014or \u201cbig veg\u201d as he likes to say, to great delight.<\/p>\n

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Since his first brush with virality in 2020 (at the time, his nephew told him, \u201cYou\u2019ve gone viral with your spuds, Gerald\u201d), he has become a gardening influencer of sorts\u2014and a fashion muse. That cabbage fleece? It\u2019s McQ by Alexander McQueen.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever I wear it on screen, it just takes off. I get a million hits every time,\u201d Stratford tells Vogue<\/em> of the fleece outfit. Stratford was a collaborator on the project, and the label bears his name alongside other creatives. \u201cI feel quite proud, you know,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve took my vegetables to the fashion world.\u201d (In addition to McQueen, Stratford has worked with Gucci, Burberry, and White Stuff.) He loves slicing vegetables in a way that accentuates their inner beauty, and says that cabbage is one of the best. \u201cCabbage always seems to get people\u2019s imagination,\u201d Stratford says.<\/p>\n

If recent reports are any indication, Stratford is onto something here. The \u201cPinterest Predicts\u201d trend report said that in 2026, we will collectively reach peak cabbage obsession. You can already find cabbage (and lettuce, if we\u2019re being technical) motifs all over: the Sandy Liang cabbage bag from the designer\u2019s spring 2025 collection, the Dodie Thayer for Tory Burch ceramic line, a sterling silver cabbage centerpiece from Buccellati, and cabbage as decor in floral arrangements and advertising campaigns, like for the Highgrove x Burberry collection.<\/p>\n

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In Taiwan, according to CNN, a jadeite cabbage sculpture is the star attraction of the National Palace Museum\u2014so popular it has its own exhibition hall. On TikTok, there have been many \u201cviral\u201d cabbage recipes, like the cabbage boil and the green goddess cabbage salad.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At New York restaurants, you\u2019ll find cabbage on many menus\u2014as a bar snack at Sunken Harbor Club, with crab (\u201ccrabbage\u201d) at Bong, and grilled at Zimmi\u2019s. It\u2019s been paired with citrus and dates at Eyval, made \u201caddictive\u201d at Dr. Clark\u2019s and izakayas like Cotra, and of course, stuffed at Veselka. The New York Times<\/em> called cabbage \u201cthe vegetable of the year.\u201d Even Bordallo Pinheiro, the Portuguese ceramics company founded in 1884, has recently seen an increase in demand for their cabbage collection, according to Maria Santana, a representative for the brand.<\/p>\n

When Mayor Zohran Mamdani was campaigning, he cradled a cabbage in a video with the food content creators Anna Archibald and Kevin Serai, who are known online by their username Cabagges. The couple tells Vogue<\/em> that one of their first viral videos was of them making cabbage mille-feuille nabe, a Japanese dish of layered pork and cabbage in a dashi broth. Archibald says that if cabbage is having a moment now, it\u2019s likely because of how accessible and adaptable it is. \u201cEveryone can get their hands on a cabbage,\u201d she says. Serai notes that many different cultures across the world have long made cabbage dishes. Perhaps the difference now is that cabbage may increasingly be the star of the show.<\/p>\n

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Among the cabbage evangelists is James Beard award-winning chef Sophia Roe, who tells Vogue<\/em> that cabbage is a \u201csexy choice\u201d for chefs today. Roe has a popular braised cabbage recipe that has converted at least one nonbeliever to the cabbage way of life, and she loves the vegetable for its versatility. \u201cYou can stuff it, you can fry it, you can braise it, you can steam it. You can do anything you can think of,\u201d she says. In other words, cabbage can be a blank canvas, a vehicle for butter or anything else you can dream of.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Plus, Roe adds, cabbage has a shape and texture that makes it ripe for both aesthetic and gustatory pleasures. For her, today\u2019s style of cabbage-as-art feels like part of a trend toward the baroque, and aligns with the tradition of Danish still life paintings that feature cabbages.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn terms of the optics, cabbages are like big flowers, and people love big flowers,\u201d Roe says. \u201cMove over peonies, cause the cabbage is here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

Source URL: http:\/\/vogue.com\/article\/cabbage-trend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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