From Fashion To Food, What’s Peter Som’s Secret Sauce?

While, today, you are more likely to find Som in his kitchen capturing dishes for his website and social media channels, recipe-testing his cookbook, and attending food events, than at a design studio or a fashion show, he says “it took a while to get footing” after stopping his ready-to-wear business. “You become so laser-focused on a goal that, when the universe has other plans for you, it takes you a while to see the whole world out there,” he says. Now that he has, he doesn’t feel the need to fit in one box: “Sometimes people ask me, ‘So what do you do?’ And I’m like, ‘You know, fashion designer, recipe developer, lifestyle-y person…’ What do I call myself? But I think in this world, we’re all multihyphenates now.”