Apiece Apart SPRING 2021 READY-TO-WEAR
Fashion is a reflection of the times, but 2020 has challenged designers to be particularly reactive. On top of grappling with a pandemic and keeping their businesses afloat during a recession. We’re asking them to answer some pretty existential questions: What role does fashion play in times of crisis? And what do women really want to wear right now? What about five months from now?
The answers seem to change almost as quickly as the news cycle. The spring 2021 collections are just getting underway, but already they’re striking a different tone than the resort lines we saw in June. Back then, Apiece Apart’s Starr Hout and Laura Cramer were thinking about comfort and safety. And showed a sweatshirt-heavy collection of minimal frills. Spring, however, found them craving more “expressive, productive” clothes, namely in the form of one-and-done dresses. The silhouettes are recognizably Apiece Apart—loose, comfortable, the kind you’d wear with Birkenstocks or sneakers—but the palette and prints are significantly bolder than usual. The duo said they wanted to embrace femininity in its most abundant, uplifting forms, best exemplified by a crimson floral wrap dress and a range of lapis shibori pieces.
Hout pointed out that the shibori dyeing was done in a quite straightforward, traditional way; in the past, her team may have tweaked the technique to make it their own, but they were inclined to keep things classic here. The idea was to highlight a traditional, time-honored craft, one that’s often done by women; the Victorian pin-tucked dresses and hand-smocked trapeze gowns were similarly reverent. There’s something comforting about those familiar, timeless flourishes; why complicate them if you don’t have to? It’s impossible to know what the world will look like in February, when this collection ships, but Hout and Cramer are hopeful that women will be ready for a vibrant, ultra-feminine dress with a handmade touch—something simple, but with heart.
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source: vogue
