Brat summer isn’t just about cigs and cocaine – it’s whatever you want it to be
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While it might be easy to write off the Charli XCX-inspired trend that everyone online is talking about – particularly in the wake of go-nowhere seasonal branding exercises such as ‘rat girl summer’ – there’s something deeply fun, vulnerable, and all-encompassing about it too, writes Olivia Petter