“I was inspired by chefs for cooking, maybe not the looks,” says Santiago Lastra, the chef and co-owner at KOL in London’s Marylebone. “It’s quite recent that chefs are really starting to dress well. It’s not been a priority for a long time. I know there is a chef style: this white T-shirt and some sort of denim trousers, like Anthony Bourdain, but I wasn’t looking up to that when I was a kid.”
You could argue that the cooking profession as style inspiration was bubbling up even before GQ declared, in 2022, that “actually, The Bear is a menswear show”. True, Jeremy Allen White’s Carmy has put his weight behind the white T-shirt – plus, the oven full of vintage denim and that NN07 patchwork jacket.
