Daniel Silver and Steven Cox have decamped for the summer to Mykonos, where they have a summer home. The island’s rolling valleys and sea views seem to agree with them. On a FaceTime call they shared stories of morning jaunts into town for coffee, productive afternoons in the studio, and the soul-deep satisfaction of watching their fig trees come into flower. It’s not a permanent move, but you couldn’t blame them if they did decide to pack up their Brooklyn life for the Greek way.
This collection was designed earlier this year, in the heady space of anticipation. A trip to Clarence House on New York’s Upper East Side for fabrics with which to upholster the furniture they bought for the Mykonos house yielded the lively tropical prints of cotton trousers, and a blouse embroidered extravagantly with flowers was made from a bolt of the precious fabric long held onto for just the right occasion. The enormous Tyvek bags their house contractors used to move heavy building materials inspired a pair of giant totes. Cox poses naked in the white organza version at the top of their new look book.
“If we stepped off the wheel when we stopped doing shows, we stepped off again coming here,” Cox said. They both anticipate that island living will impact their next collection even more. Experiencing Greece’s hot summer should prove beneficial for them as designers, as the world just keeps getting warmer (you’ve surely heard about the Paris men’s shows heat wave). But they already have a firm handle on what works practically and fashionably when the temps go up. See the breezy, billowy washed-silk button-down in a cherry-blossom-pink crepe de chine.
