Rachel Antonoff has been thinking about butter. Butter as the ultimate condiment that makes everything better, as an easily attainable luxury and indulgence. There was a simple tank top with a crochet trim and the image of a salted butter bar on the chest, which was worn with a wrap skirt with a “floral” print of charcuterie ingredients (figs, mandarin oranges, a block of cheese), and a sweetly romantic print of little slabs of butter in heart-shaped doilies that decorated a white denim jumpsuit worn with a matching cotton shirt.
Antonoff loves a faux floral print, meaning it takes a while to register the tomatoes, the bean and raspberry plants, or the lettuces that populate her easy dresses. But there were also proper floral prints, some inspired by the edible flowers that have been making an appearance on cookies as of late, and others inspired by tulip gardens. The latter was used on a mid-length dress with a shirred bodice and contrasting ribbon straps, the skirt trimmed with an iron fence design complete with a sign to “Please Curb Your Dog.” Though her aesthetic may seem unorthodox, her dresses and separates all seemed perfectly suited for summer garden parties or opulent Italian vacations whose only purpose is to eat one’s way through the country.
That the model in the lookbook is India Bradley who dances with the New York City Ballet is part of the butter of it all. “Ballet feels like the butter of dance, you know what I mean?” she said from her Brooklyn studio. “There is a butter of every category of thing, it’s the thing that’s really the topper, the perfect most luxurious thing that you feel just pushed that category over the edge.”