Schloss
July 6, 2026 / Photo: Courtesy of Bashir Abdulkareem
Taylor Schlossberg combined her love of embroidery and reworking secondhand clothing to create a collection of one-of-a-kind pieces that celebrate slow living.
Schlossberg jokes that her brand was not at all premeditated and “just sort of ineloquently and accidentally… happened.”
“I worked in TV for years when I was living in LA, and then fell into the greatest existential crisis ever, which ended with me moving to New Orleans with no job. Every day, I would force myself to spend a few hours on LinkedIn before letting myself spend the rest of the day embroidering on vintage clothes I’d thrifted,” she explained. “When I was done with a piece, I’d wear it to grab coffee at my local cafe, and if I saw people eyeing what I was wearing, I’d know I was onto something.”
She then began taking commissions for her hand-embroidered pieces, and eventually decided to turn them into an entire collection called “Schloss.” Today, she operates in both Brooklyn and New Orleans, selling online and in-person at pop-ups.
Schlossberg’s pieces include buttondowns, shorts, and linen trousers embellished with playful embroidered motifs like oysters, wine bottles, and cigarettes sizzling in an ashtray. She says that she primarily sources her secondhand materials in the South and that her designs are inspired by her own lived experiences.
“New York street food and rats come into play often, oyster platters as a nod to New Orleans, Monobloc chairs and bikinis drying on a clothesline for the months I spent in Brazil, and I like to take loving jabs at LA with the ‘Erewhon Dropout’ sweatshirt for the 12 years I lived there,” she said.
She also likes to explore a highbrow/lowbrow dichotomy in her work, while showcasing vignettes of analogue living that challenge an increasingly automated world.
“We live in a world full of AI slop and Amazon this, Shein that. Everything is highly automated and manufactured, even down to the phenomenon of ‘Instagram Face’” Schlossberg explained. “There are certain symbols in my work that are meant to represent the idea of making analog choices; I frequently embroider cigarettes, matches, and ashtrays on pieces because it’s the analog predecessor of Juuls and vapes. I depict dining scenes across clothes in scenes that feel like a multi-hour dinner because it’s the opposite of delivery culture, pre-prepped meals, your-delivery-driver-is-now-arriving notifications.”
This summer, Schlossberg will be selling her one-of-a-kind designs at pop-ups and markets in NYC and the Hamptons. She will also be periodically updating her site with new clothing drops.
More about Schloss can be found here.
