Rachel Antonoff wants you to let your body do the talking. “We’ve found our sweet spot these days is a comfortable silhouette in a real conversation print,” she explained. “A thing I love about conversation prints is the conversation doesn’t always have to be with someone—I can be sitting super bored on the subway and it’s nice to have something to look at even if you don’t have your book or whatever. It’s nice to have elements of discovery even for yourself.”
For her fall lookbook, she took that desire for connection to Paris, along with her mom and her Aunt Mindy. The three of them went to restaurants and the Eiffel Tower dressed in Antonoff’s latest collection. Many of the photographs were taken by passerby. “You have someone take your picture and you realize there’s a little bit of kindness everywhere,” she said. Many of the prints revolve around food—tomatoes in particular—though it is by happenstance that many of the images were taken in restaurants or food markets (what else does one do in Paris but eat?).
After years of being told to “calm down” and “quiet” her prints, she’s realized that people are coming to her for her wildest ones. There’s a jumpsuit in a red and white plaid-and-floral plastic picnic tablecloth pattern (you know the one), a short sleeve babydoll dress with pintuck details at the bust and a print of pink flamingos decorating the skirt, and a spaghetti strap summer dress with an abstract floral that upon closer inspection is in fact frogs being dissected. “It’s my favorite style of conversation print, which is like, ‘oh that’s a pretty print… oh no, that’s blood and guts!’ It’s so fun and subversive,” Antonoff added, laughing,
But there were still floral prints to be found, on a slip dress with a shirred bodice and ties at the shoulder, and on a wrap halter dress with a collar and belt in a “sprite” motif. “They’re literally sprites just dancing on vines.” The best floral, though, wasn’t a floral at all but tomatoes, especially on a v-neck cardigan with green and yellow tomatoes, and on a slip dress that was a slight nod to those ’90s sari-inspired dresses with a paisley print on the body and a contrasting larger print around the hem. Her take had an all-over cherry tomato print with a border of colorful heirloom tomatoes on a lace collar and the hem of the dress.
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