Rachel Antonoff’s Obsession With Baking the *Perfect* Key Lime Pie Inspired Her Latest Designs

This article is part of an interview series called Ladies Who (Wear) Lunch, an exploration of the intersection of food and fashion.

When I think of my favorite food memories, my mind goes a million different directions at once. There’s the green Shr…

This article is part of an interview series called Ladies Who (Wear) Lunch, an exploration of the intersection of food and fashion.


When I think of my favorite food memories, my mind goes a million different directions at once. There’s the green Shrek-themed ketchup that my sister begged my dad to buy on one of our family shopping trips. I was maybe 9, she was maybe 6, and whenever we were at his house for the week, he’d let us pick out one junk food item each. It was thrilling to say the least. (My sister ate that ketchup exactly one time and then it was banished to the back of the fridge for entirely too long.) There’s the unparalleled experience of eating a fresh batch of Fisher’s Popcorn after spending a morning playing in the waves in Rehoboth Beach, Del., fingers pruny and salted from the ocean, mind at ease because summer vacation was in full swing. There’s my grandma’s potato salad that she made whenever we had a crab boil, birthday, or other family gathering, forever insisting on Helman’s over Duke’s. There’s the beautifully charred, impossibly flavorful flank steak my mom would grill and serve alongside a too-big salad and plenty of other fixin’s when the weather was nice and she had time to cook dinner after a full day in her catering kitchen. These memories are a blend of low-brow and (occasional) high-brow foods that make up the whole of my gustatory past—a thrilling culinary joy ride, if you will.

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