For her spring 2025 collection, Rachel Antonoff cast her family to star in her lookbook. Actually, she cast actors to star as her family in the lookbook. For the second time. “For fall 2021 I cast my actual family—my mom, my dad, Jack [her musician brother], and me; then I did it again for spring 2022, but I cast Bob Balaban as my dad, Susie Essman as my mom, John Reynolds as my brother, and Sarah Ramos played me,” she recalled. “This is the third time I’ve done it and I hope to keep doing it again and again.” It made sense to cast her family in 2021 when the world was still in the throes of COVID, that she did it again in 2022 is perhaps best explained by what she told Vogue’s Steff Yotka at the time. “I really want to play and to have a little silliness this season.”
And so the cast for this season included Edie Falco in the role of Mom, Steve Buscemi in the role of Dad, Chris Fleming in the role of Brother, and Gillian Jacobs as Rachel herself. There was also an addition. “Jack and I have a sister that’s no longer with us, who passed away when we were younger, and so this season we have Claud playing the role of Sibling,” she explained. “I thought perhaps it would be strange for my parents, but during the shoot at our house I looked over at my mom and I could tell she was happy.”
The collection was full of Rachel Antonoff classics, but with a bit more romance thrown in. There were A-line dresses with fitted sweetheart necklines in an allium print (you can’t have a Rachel Antonoff collection without a food print), but also in a lovely little berry branch print; and a short sleeve baby doll dress in a roses print. A delicate slip dress with fluttering sleeves that was straight out of a ’90s WB show came in a tiny floral print and also the classic centaur toile print (with images of lady centaurs). Elsewhere, the “cupcake knits” that Antonoff introduced last season returned, this time in a fuzzy terry in colors like hot pink and lime green—which matched the acid-washed jeans in similar hues. Antonoff’s intarsia knits were cheekier than ever, at least a tank with a seashell design at the breasts—and yes, pearl-embellished nipples. “At first we thought, ‘Is this too saucy?’ But it was just saucy enough,” she said, laughing. Paired with matching shell-print shorts with frayed edges, it made for the perfect cool girl summer outfit. But the piece de resistance was definitely the semi-transparent raincoat with a charcuterie print—complete with a baguette trim. Proof that sometimes you can have your cake (or your Caviar-themed intarsia knit set) and eat it too.
