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‘The new digital flex’: the airport tray trend stirring outrage and delight

High-end possessions artfully placed in grey plastic security trays are giving #foodstagram a run for its money

The publisher Faber posted half a dozen trays themed around its books on Instagram, while the bag brand August Noa used it to showcase their designs surrounded by Chanel mules, claw clips and sunglasses. In fact, as part of another current trend, people share pictures of what they are carrying – Prada handbags, flowers and nice bottles of wine – in their bike baskets, often offering some handy marketing for bike-share schemes such as Lime in the process. She had this sage advice to offer: “If you’re mad about people taking a tray from the TSA line, going to a separate section and setting up a cute little aesthetic photo where they are not bothering anybody … then, I dunno, grab a Snickers.

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