Name: Kerby Jean-Raymond

Age: 31

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Occupation: Founder and creative director of Pyer Moss

Location: Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York

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Between designing for Pyer Moss (which earned him a Council of Fashion Designers of America nomination) and collaborating with Reebok on a sneaker line, Jean-Raymond hardly spends a day at home, which for now is a rental in a cluster of high-rises on the Brooklyn waterfront.

“What keeps me grounded while I’m here is cooking,” he said, showing off his gleaming kitchen and built-in fridge. “But I haven’t gotten attached to it.”

So you’re eating on the road these days?

Too much. I’m trying to get a balance, man. Because I have been home this month maybe six days. I spend most of my time at LaGuardia Airport. It’s awful. My hope about moving someplace else or buying something is that I can start a project. Like build out a kitchen.

With your career on an upswing, do you feel you have to go for it right now?

I do. For a while I gave up the concept of home. I gave up the concept of having things. That’s why you look around here, I don’t really have furniture. Besides those stools you’re sitting on, I literally have four pieces of furniture.

Where did you grow up?

I grew up in East Flatbush. I’m from Brooklyn. I drop by my dad’s house all the time. That’s where I feel home. I got my keys. I just walk in wherever.

What got you into cooking?

Believe it or not for how skinny I am, but I used to be a bodybuilder. That’s when I started cooking because I had to make my meals. But recently, I cut down on eating meat. I watched that stupid movie on Netflix that ruined everyone. It changed my cooking habits because I was so used to cooking Haitian dishes like tasso and jerk chicken and oxtail.

What’s your secret ingredient?

Turmeric. I put turmeric in everything, especially breakfast. And pink salt. It’s a lot better for you than typical white salt.

What’s the significance of this Basquiat poster?

That’s the original poster from the movie. It was one of the first things I bought on eBay. I cherish it. That’s the thing that’s been with me since my college dorm, my father’s house, it’s been everywhere. I just got to reframe it. It still has the same original frame from when I was 16 years old and poor.