For last season's ode to 1980s downtown creatives—Alex Katz, Tina Weymouth, and all the rest—Apiece Apart sent out a collection uncharacteristically rich in pattern: There was television static, kinetic geometrics, and bold stripes. With its Spring offering, it's taken a step back and instead thrown itself headlong into a collection inspired by the stark graphic appeal of the Grecian islands.
Ideas of light and space were paramount, so designers Starr Hout and Laura Cramer cast their typically stripped-down shapes, like palazzo pants and boxy little crop tops, in marine blues and whites, sheeny chambray, and substantial linen. They riffed on traditional Grecian key motifs with beautiful embroidered designs, seen on a top and shorts, while blue and white color-blocked dresses evoked the Aegean and whitewashed walls nicely. Buttery custom Peruvian knits have at this point become a hallmark of the duo's offerings, and Spring's lush, fringed ponchos are sure to top many a wish list—ditto much of the collection's outerwear, like a gorgeous waxed cotton trench in a tawny brown and crisp linen trenches. Those will look just as nice on the streets of Manhattan with a midi skirt, as rumpled over a maillot on some beach in Hydra.
