When Fashion Week kicks off tomorrow, it will bring a galaxy of global tastemakers to town. But after a high-wattage day in the tents, where will the supernovas preen and pose — preferably over a plate of artfully arrayed ingredients and a cocktail or two?
That’s where “Bon Appétit Presents Feast or Fashion” comes in — tantalizing the public with special fall menu “collections” at au courant restaurants and even special access to hot spots such as Crown during Fashion Week. (To check out menus and to sign up for reservation alerts, go to bafeastorfashion.com.)
“Food is having a major moment,” says Bon Appétit publisher Pamela Drucker Mann. “Ten years ago food was stodgy, it was epicurean, it was about being a gourmet cook in your home. Now there are many people who consider themselves foodies who don’t actually cook.”
PHOTOS: FOOD AND STYLE COLLIDE!
Even major designers such as Ralph Lauren, she points out, are now opening restaurants.
“What we’re doing with Feast or Fashion is an ode to this new world — a complement to what’s already happening,” says Mann, noting that just as designers will be debuting new fashion collections this week, chefs will be launching new seasonal menus — and dictating food trends for months to come.
So if food is the new fashion, what does one wear to dinner? To answer that highly important question, The Post teamed up with Bon Appétit for a delicious photo shoot inspired by five chefs’ menu collections.