A Look Back at Top Chefs In Vogue
Photographed by Steven Klein, Vogue, July 20151/15Enrique Olvera
Last summer, Mexican chef Enrique Olvera was profiled in Vogue as his New York restaurant Cosme truly started to take off. Cosme is still one of the best restaurants in the city, and has since added a weekend brunch to its stellar corn husk meringue–studded repertoire. In addition to keeping up his non-U.S. establishments such as the acclaimed Pujol, last October Olvera published a cookbook from Phaidon, entitled Mexico From the Inside Out.
Photographed by Anton Corbijn, Vogue, September 20132/15David Chang
In the September 2013 profile, “The Anxiety of Influence,” David Chang was conveyed as his own constant critic. But for the Momofuku mega chef, a little bit of laurel-resting seems well deserved. Since this article ran, Chang has opened Fuku, his fried chicken sandwich–focused grab-and-go spot (which was alluded to in the piece); the Chelsea-based Nishi; and a D.C. restaurant CCDC—all among other things.
Photographed by Steven Meisel, Vogue, September 20103/15David Chang
Chang however did first appear in the magazine in 2010, alongside models Jourdan Dunn, Stella Tennant, and actors Eddie Redmayne and Naomi Watts, to promote Fashion’s Night Out.
Photographed by Christopher Baker, Vogue, February 20094/15Gabrielle Hamilton
On the occasion of gay marriage’s legalization last year, chef Gabrielle Hamilton penned an Up Front essay on her romantic past. But long before this, she was photographed in her East First Street restaurant Prune with her sons Marco and Leone. Hamilton has been included in a piece on Lower Manhattan’s “mom-and-pop” restaurants. But since her 2009 Vogue appearance, Hamilton has truly flourished as a writer as well. She not only published a Prune cookbook, but Blood, Bones Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef—a 2011 memoir widely considered one of the best such examples written by a chef.
Photographed by Eric Boman, Vogue, October 20115/15Ferran Adrià
When elBulli, the renowned Spanish restaurant was set to close, Vogue’s Jeffrey Steingarten traveled to Catalonia, Spain, for one last meal. Chef Ferran Adrià posed for a portrait in front of the stone walls of his culinary destination. Since 2011, Adrià has gone on to a host of other projects, while the building itself reopened as a creativity center in 2014.
