Why is fashion so obsessed with hearts?

Why is fashion so obsessed with hearts?
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Every February 14, heart-adorned cards filled with handwritten confessions of adoration pass between lovers’ hands. They bite into heart-shaped desserts beneath papier-mâché mistletoe and unfurl heart-stamped banners.

The symbol of a heart represents one of the body’s most complex and vital organs. Stunningly simple in its design, it decidedly bears almost no resemblance to its anatomical namesake. Think about it, two curves and a point – the heart – form an instantly legible shorthand for the most torturous, messy, and ethereal of human experiences.

Hearts are one of the first symbols that we adopt; they're carved onto trees, with fingers into wet cement, scrawled on back pages of our diaries – all to compress a myriad of complex emotions into a tiny, recognisable emblem. That compression has made it not only Cupid’s mascot and Valentine’s emblem, but fashion’s most enduring muse.

By Georgia Weir

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