The Duckie Brown Menswear collection
The date and time: Friday, February 2, 1:50pm
The place:
Backstage at Duckie Brown with Daniel Silver, half of the Duckie Brown design team
By Vivian G. Kelly
Photographs by J. Ecochard
“The ten inch kilt is not actually a kilt, but a cummerbund, that was made in the Lochlaron Mill, a very old factory in Scotland” Daniel explained just moments before the show went off.
Rather than doing Disney theme-parky shows, this label’s two designers are firmly rooted in their own reality. Continues Daniel, “Duckie Brown is about our lives and the people we know. Steven’s brother [Steven Cox is the other half of Duckie Brown] who actually is an English stockbroker dude, was the inspiration for the Denver plaid shirt [and jacket] in the show.
2:28pm -
The Duckie Brown runway show,
The venue: the Showroom at Bryant Park
The verdict: ++
The line may be avant-garde, but these are supremely well-tailored clothes, accessorized with fun touches, such as turquoise suede gloves and green bowl cut wigs. The models may have green hair but they’re wearing some awfully luxurious gray pinstripe pieces. The black low-rise tux pants and vest get a punch worn with an elbow length shirt and citron wool pompom cap. As fashion is about experimentation and innovation why NOT wear a chartreuse three-armed cashmere sweater, with the third arm serving as a muffler? Even a black hooded sweatshirt isn’t ordinary, embellished with the brand’s logo, an orange and white beaded rooster and crown motif on the back. Most men probably won’t embrace the super low crotched pants, but we know that there are guys out there thin and cool enough to wear it.
On our way out, we spotted a lot of member s of the audience wearing pompom hats like the ones that were shown on the runway just minutes earlier.