For Rachel Antonoff, work and household are deeply entwined. Take 2021, when she enlisted her household—together with musician brother Jack and father, Rick, her enterprise associate—to pose for her lookbook. Then, in 2022 and 2025, she had her household pose once more, nonetheless this time casting Hollywood icons (suppose: Bob Balaban as dad, Susie Essman as mother, and Sarah Ramos as Antonoff herself) to painting a model of her nuclear counterparts at their precise childhood residence in New Jersey, thus creating the “Re-Antonoff” sequence. Now for spring 2026, the familial format is again and Annie Clark (ie St. Vincent), Patti Harrison, New Yorker scribe Susan Orlean, gag musician Al Yankovic, and Paul W. Downs of Hacks went out West, although the gathering’s ’70s Hollywood really feel doesn’t imply that the gathering has misplaced any of Antonoff’s east coast oddball attraction.
To wit: most of the patterns took inspiration from the “Borscht Belt,” a trip area within the Catskills widespread with Jewish households from the Nineteen Twenties to 70s, that even boasts its personal Borscht Museum. Antonoff additionally goes as far as to create her personal Catskill toile depicting seasonal vacationers (some are even making out!); in the meantime, a collage of native menus and attraction brochures seem on a light-weight shirtdress in a silk cotton voile.
Radishes, fruits, cupcakes—plus a knit piña colada for good measure—are served up on a unusual sample. The prints are dense, vibrant, and kooky by design: “I all the time say there are issues to find for those who’re caught on the subway and looking at somebody’s outfit,” she stated. “We’re all the time making an attempt to cover the peas within the mashed potatoes with a print.” There’s even a paint by number-printed sundress for the significantly detail-oriented. For individuals who might desire extra commonplace (however nonetheless kitschy) fare, there’s some mod terrycloth attire match for the poolside on both coast. Perusing Antonoff’s spring assortment may make you hungry (for a classic Northeastern resort as a lot because it does a scoop of ice cream); nonetheless, as she charmingly put it, “What it’s not is only a charcuterie board once more!”
