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subscribe to style file blog via RSSApiece Apart, Almost Like Legos
March 17, 2009 12:56 pm
“Modular” was the name of the game when Laura Cramer and Starr Hout launched Apiece Apart last season. The debut collection worked as a wardrobe of interchangeable pieces—washed linen jackets, sandwashed silk shells, a full-length romper. Now that those clothes are arriving in stores, Hout and Cramer are upping the ante for Fall and taking their modular concept 3-D. “Stackability,” says Hout, throwing down the gauntlet. “We wanted to create a collection where not only do the pieces work in and out with each other, but they can layer, too.” That meant cutting a cropped jacket, for example, in such a way that its lapel poked out teasingly below the Fall iteration of their bedrock boxy blazer. “We didn’t want the pieces fighting with each other,” Hout notes. For Fall, look for a metallic wool in the fabric mix and dolman-sleeved collarless coats in waxed cotton. “We love Barbour and Filson, all those super-functional heritage brands,” says Cramer. After all, as Hout adds, “It rains in the city, too.”
tags: Apiece Apart, Laura Cramer, Starr Hout
