The Rachel Antonoff fall 2024 lookbook stars Jenny Slate and a look-alike puppet. “The vibe is all the world is a stage,” she explained from her Brooklyn studio. “It’s that feeling you have when you’re dressing up for a crush; I thought we should be bringing that same energy to everything.”
Antonoff’s sartorial raison d’être is always joy—her signature prints are never just florals or paisleys but frog dissections, pasta bows, and a terrific new paisley with a cat hidden in its pattern—but lately she has begun to explore different ways to communicate that feeling based on color and silhouette alone. Like the matching knit sets with scalloped edges—there’s a cardigan, a wrap skort, a slim flare trouser, a sheath, and a bolero—in a color palette of classic shades like black, red, baby pink, periwinkle, and toffee. “My dream is for this to be sort of like Juicy Couture, something that you could wear to the airport and not feel like you look like shit,” she added. A look where Slate was wearing the trousers in toffee with a brussels griffon-themed intarsia sweater, layered underneath a glossy vegan leather red trench coat, did indeed seem like the perfect airport fit. Acid washed denim cargo pants were also a highlight.
The crush mindset also resulted in a few va-va-voom looks, including a short sequined dress with a slight blouson-style bodice and a fitted skirt, and another in pink velvet with a shirred and gathered skirt adorned with satin bows. They both had very youthful—and alluring—open backs, perfect for date night. Antonoff even seems to have accidentally zero’d in on brat summer, with a neon green quilted slip dress with metallic fringe straps that the wearer should absolutely let fall over their shoulders because they don’t care.