Designer Zac Posen to write cookery book

Fashion designer Zac Posen has announced plans to turn a hobby he uses to "de-fashion" into a full-fledged cookbook.

Fans and Instagram followers of the New York-based designer may already have seen the news coming.

In between snaps of his latest collection, glimpses of his work studio, and his fabulous celebrity friends, Posen has also been posting photos of the meals he whips up at home.

Meals such as soba noodle soup with mini chicken quenelle (or dumpling) and asparagus; fried calamari; Kenchinjiru Buddhist vegetable soup; risotto with peas and porcini mushrooms; and strawberry rhubarb pie.

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Recently, Posen officially announced plans to publish a collection of his recipes with Rodale on Instagram.

"Thank you to my @instagram followers for your continuous excitement," he wrote alongside a snap of a meringue pie topped with edible flowers.

"You made this happen."

In an interview with Vogue, Posen credited his Instagram fans for planting the seed for the idea.

"If it had not been for the response from the followers on social media, I never would have taken the plunge and put a cookbook together," he said.

Posen also called cooking a hobby that allows him to "de-fashion" and described his culinary style as "rustic to refined."

If the meals on his Instagram account are anything to go by, fans can expect Asian -- notably Japanese -- influenced recipes, Italian dishes as well as French techniques, no doubt influenced by his French partner Christopher Niquet.

When he wasn't dreaming up ladies' fashions in his younger years, Posen says he was reading recipes in "The New York Times," "The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook," the French instructional guide "La Varenne Pratique" or watching the Discovery Channel's "Great Chefs" program.

Posen's foray into the food world is hardly the first time fashion and food have met. Versace, Bulgari, Ralph Lauren, and DSquared also have restaurants or bars around the world attached to their name.

The Zac Posen cookbook is scheduled to be released in the fall of 2017.