The inspiration for Apiece Apart designers Laura Cramer and Starr Hout’s new Spring collection included all of the following: Josef Albers, color theory, Lawrence of Arabia, David Hockney’s painting, and early Joan Didion. But for the video they shot to accompany the collection, they threw yet another into the mix: Ingmar Bergman’s Persona. “It seemed [...]

“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 [...]

Remember Units? Depending on where you were living in the late eighties, you may have encountered the Units concept via the brand names Multiples or Singles. Still not ringing a bell? Here’s Woody Hochswender, writing in The New York Times on October 18, 1988: “In times of escalating clothing costs and fashion ennui, ‘modular dressing’ [...]