When Todd Snyder talks about designing clothing, he often uses cooking analogies.
“I’ll tell my team, ‘All the ingredients are known, it’s how you put them together that’s unique,'” the designer says. “I always say that if I weren’t in fashion, I’d have gotten into cooking.” So it makes sense that Snyder is outfitting the waiters at Eleven Madison Park, the storied Manhattan restaurant, for its fall overhaul after a brief summer residence in the swanky beach town of East Hampton.
Snyder first got in touch with Eleven Madison Park’s Michelin-starred chef Daniel Humm and restauranteur/EMP co-owner Will Guidara when he opened his Madison Park-facing flagship store last year, and enlisted them for a series profiling stylish men who worked nearby, called Madison Men. “I’m not this kind of diva where it’s all about me,” Snyder says. “I like to tell my story through the lens of other people. I love working with the people I’m inspired by.”
