For his or her spring assortment, Duckie Brown’s Steven Cox and Daniel Silver supplied a mélange of classic Duckie items and brand-new ones. It’s the type of factor that occurs if you end up packing and are available throughout previous issues and determine it’s time to present them a brand new spin. Because it occurs, the Duckies are certainly packing up their West Village studio in a crate and sending it to Greece, the place they’re at the moment within the midst of developing their home. “Duckie Brown is certainly occurring over there, and now we’ve gone from this residence that we used to dwell in that Daniel purchased within the ’80s—and we made Duckie Brown in it—right into a type of slaughter,” stated Cox with attribute élan. “Nicely, that’s a harsh phrase, however there’s one thing about taking this desk, pushing every part off it, and beginning once more.” And thus an outsized yellow go well with (2016) is worn with a pink shirt (new); a jacket adorned with trompe l’oeil beaded medals (2006) is worn with their basic huge shirt in crimson silk jacquard (new) and plaid trousers (2012); a stunning inexperienced cashmere coat (2007) is worn over a paisley silk jacquard gown (new) and pink wide-leg trousers (new). A red-and-blue-patterned jacquard coat from 2014 regarded 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 quick, lengthy skirt or costume, all finished in crepe de chine and silk,” added Cox. “We will’t do wool in Greece.” 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 attempting 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 greatest prospects, has already taken dwelling the kitchen-pink shirt.) A terrific skirt made out of a white material with the phrase pattern printed on it got here from their summer time go to to SCAD, the place they suggested the senior class and met a pupil named Kaj Nielsen. “We actually admired the material once 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 guts is, however when the guts is constructed into the garments, then dwelling can actually be wherever you need. We sit up for the subsequent period of Duckie Brown.