- Chloë Fineman and her mother, painter Ellen Gunn, co-designed a limited-edition striped capsule with Frank & Eileen, each creating their own signature stripe pattern featured across the brand's two iconic button-up silhouettes.
- The collection includes the Eileen and Shirley shirts, available in the "Chloe Stripe" and "Ellen Stripe" patterns, launching at FrankandEileen.com and the brand's Madison Avenue flagship.
- This is Frank & Eileen's second House collaboration under its celebrity design program, following its 2025 partnership with actress Julianne Moore as inaugural collaborator.
- For Fineman, this marks her third fashion brand partnership in under a year, following capsule collabs with Mother (September 2025) and a campaign appearance for Birkenstock x La Ligne (November 2025).
Chloë Fineman, SNL Season 51 repertory player, now the show’s longest-tenured female cast member, and recent Broadway debutante in All In: Comedy About Love, is bringing her off-screen style to shelves.
The comedian has teamed up with her mother, artist Ellen Gunn, and Frank & Eileen founder and CEO Audrey McLoghlin on a limited-edition striped capsule collection, announced May 19, 2026.
The duo designed two distinct stripe patterns: the “Chloe Stripe” and “Ellen Stripe,” rooted in their lifelong obsession with blue and white stripes. Both prints are available in Frank & Eileen’s signature Eileen and oversized Shirley button-up silhouettes.
This marks Fineman’s third fashion collaboration in less than a year, having previously partnered with L.A.-based denim brand Mother alongside her sister Emma (September 2025), and fronted the Birkenstock x La Ligne campaign (November 2025).
This pattern is similar to what Rachel Sennott did fronting Marc Jacobs’ The Scene campaign and Ali Wong’s team-up with Vodafone, both reflecting a wider trend of comedy-first talent becoming go-to fashion faces.
For Frank & Eileen, a 100% woman-owned, B Corp-certified brand founded in 2009, the Fineman collaboration follows its critically well-received 2025 partnership with Julianne Moore, the inaugural House of Frank & Eileen collaborator.
The brand, also beloved by Meghan Markle, recently opened its first U.S. flagship on Madison Avenue and launched the Frank & Eileen Foundation to support women entrepreneurs. The collection is available now at FrankandEileen.com and in-store.
Takeaways
Frank & Eileen is quietly building one of fashion’s smartest celebrity design programs. By partnering first with Julianne Moore and now with Chloë Fineman, the brand isn’t just borrowing celebrity shine, it’s co-creating with women who genuinely wear the product.
The “House of Frank & Eileen” model is less endorsement, more design residency, and that distinction is resonating.
What makes the Fineman capsule stand out even further is the mother-daughter angle. Ellen Gunn isn’t a celebrity, she’s a painter and a real Frank & Eileen customer. Bringing her into the design room adds authenticity that no paid campaign could manufacture. It also signals that the brand is actively marketing to generational shoppers, not just trend-chasers.
For Fineman herself, this collaboration is career-brand alignment at its best. She’s not just attaching her name, she’s designing from personal history, literally borrowing her mother’s shirts. That kind of storytelling is what separates a forgettable collab from a sell-out one.
Does the mother-daughter co-design angle make this collab feel more authentic than a standard celebrity endorsement, or is it still just smart marketing? Frank & Eileen’s House program is still early: who should be their next collaborator to keep the momentum going?
