For Bernhard Willhelm’s NºB, seven friends answered fifteen questions about cooking. From Ann Demeulemeester’s photographer husband Patrick Robyn to Bernhard’s own mother and the design duo of BLESS, the seven chosen represented a diverse bunch (in both age, origin and ‘style’). Within the questionnaire, each personality was asked to choose one recipe, that was then illustrated by Ludivine Billaud (in part one of Cooking). For the tenth question, Bernhard asked them each “Which garment do you associate with the dish you have chosen?”.
After choosing these items, Dutch still life photographer Maurice Scheltens took the pieces and transformed the editorial concept into this vibrant kitchen-inspired shoot, with surreal suspended objects and simple, tasty ingredients to match each person’s recipe and their garment. With cups floating in mid-air and dusted flour rings on benchtops, pasta shoes and a knife balancing on it’s point, the shoot is an exercise in Scheltens’ laboriously constructed sets (with wife Liesbeth Abbenes), and a rather kooky look into the more personal realm of Bernhard’s friends and their kitchen cupboards…

Above: As Four: 10. A garment by As Four.

Rosemarie Willhelm; 10. A sweatshirt by Bernhard Willhelm.

Alix Browne: 10. A dress by Veronique Branquinho.

Paul Bocuse: 10. A dress by Dirk Van Saene

Patrick Robyn: 10. Trousers by Ann Demeulemeester.

BLESS: 10. A handbag by BLESS.

Dave Vanderveken: 10. Trousers by aestheticterrorists® by Walter Van Beirendonck