Cuisine meets Couture: Mattia Agazzi and Humberto Leon

High fashion has always been a feast for the eyes. Now it’s
tickling the taste buds, as the world’s top luxury brands venture
into food. Some of today’s finest chefs are collaborating with
designers and fashion houses to open restaurants and launch
gastronomy ventures, such as Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura on
Rodeo Drive.


On this episode of Rodeo Drive-The Podcast, host Bronwyn
Cosgrave steps into Gucci’s food and fashion universe,
and meets Head Chef Mattia Agazzi. He explains
how Massimo Bottura fuses a love of art and cooking with local
ingredients at his bistro-style Gucci Osterias in Florence and
now Beverly Hills. Cosgrave experiences the glamorous interior --
with cherry red, velvet banquettes and gleaming, stainless steel
kitchen --and artful, playful dishes, like “Uni Carbonara,” a
whirl of bright green spaghetti with a twist of orange uni atop
and “Oops I Broke the Meringue,” a cracked disc of thin meringue
with a raspberry colored leaves and flowers echoing the Richard
Ginori dinnerware.  


Cosgrave also meets a fashion designer who has turned his
creative skills to food: Humberto Leon, a former
creative director of the iconic Paris label Kenzo. Now Leon has
gone back to his roots and, with his mother, sister, and
brother-in-law, they have created Chifa, a Peruvian-Chinese
restaurant with a sumptuous interior designed to invoke a sense
of celebration in vivid green and gold, with heart motifs and
wallpaper designed by Leon with Calico Wallpaper.


Listen to the conversation to hear how couture and cuisine have
come together to provide a new and accessible entrée to leading
luxury brands.


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