For his or her spring assortment, Duckie Brown’s Steven Cox and Daniel Silver provided a melange of classic Duckie items combined with model new ones. It’s the form of factor that occurs when you’re packing and are available throughout your outdated issues and resolve it’s time to present them a brand new spin. Because it occurs, the Duckies are certainly packing up their West Village studio up in a crate and sending it to Greece, the place they’re at present within the midst of setting up their home. “Duckie Brown is unquestionably occurring over there, and now we’ve gone from this condominium that we used to dwell in that Daniel purchased within the ’80s and we made Duckie Brown in it, right into a form of slaughter—nicely that’s a harsh phrase—however there’s one thing about taking this desk, pushing every little thing off it, and begin once more,” stated Cox with attribute elan. And thus an outsized yellow swimsuit (2016) worn with a pink shirt (new); a jacket adorned with trompe l’oeil beaded medals (2006) worn with their traditional large shirt in purple silk jacquard (new) and plaid trousers (2012); a stunning inexperienced cashmere coat (2007) worn over a paisley silk jacquard gown (new), and pink vast leg trousers (new). A purple and blue patterned jacquard coat from 2014 appeared simply as superb now because it did over a decade in the past. All are on the market.
“The brand new items are all Duckie Brown favorites: the silk trousers, the tuxedo brief, lengthy skirt or gown, all performed in crepe de chine and silk—we will’t do wool in Greece,” added Cox. They have been primarily impressed by two issues; the bathrobes worn by Josh O’Connor in The Durrells of Corfu; and the check swatches they painted on their studio partitions in Brooklyn whereas making an attempt to determine the colours of the home in Greece. The pinks and greens from their kitchen and front room transposed into the garments. (Frank, considered one of their finest clients, has already taken dwelling the kitchen-pink shirt). A terrific skirt produced from a white cloth with the phrase SAMPLE printed on it got here from their summer time go to to SCAD, the place they visited to advise the senior class and met a pupil by the identify of Kaj Nielsen. “We actually admired the material after we first met him and the subsequent day he introduced it to us, wrapped in slightly bow,” Cox defined. They are saying house is the place the center is, however when the center is in-built to the garments, then dwelling can actually be wherever you need. We look ahead to the subsequent period of Duckie Brown.
