Chef Recreates Designer Clothing With Fancy Food
One chef has taken his creativity in the kitchen and applied it to clothing.
— -- Food and fashion don’t often intersect directly, but one chef has taken his creativity in the kitchen and applied it to clothing.
Björn Frantzén, a two-star Michelin chef, recently opened four new restaurants in the Stockholm department store Nordiska Kompaniet. To commemorate the launch, Frantzén “chose to play with the concept of fashion meets food,” he told ABC News.
“There are similarities between a designer's way to work out a piece or a collection, and how I work with food,” he said. “They are both creative processes. In food and fashion anything is possible.”
To illustrate that idea, Frantzén recreated a Diane von Furstenberg dress with salad, a Valentino dress made of macarons, a Chloé dress from seafood and a Polo Ralph Lauren jacket made out of wine cork.
Frantzén picked pieces from new fashion collections at the department store and “reinterpreted them based on the restaurants’ different concepts,” he said. “A dress from Diane von Furstenberg may be timeless, but made out of salad it has a very limited use-by date. As with any food photography, one has to be quick. Timing is crucial, just like in cooking. The salads at the restaurant Botanique are made by a chef, a la minute.”