For their spring collection, Duckie Brown’s Steven Cox and Daniel Silver offered a melange of vintage Duckie pieces mixed with brand new ones. It’s the kind of thing that happens when you are packing and come across your old things and decide it’s time to give them a new spin. As it happens, the Duckies are indeed packing up their West Village studio up in a crate and sending it to Greece, where they’re currently in the midst of constructing their house. “Duckie Brown is definitely happening over there, and now we’ve gone from this apartment that we used to live in that Daniel bought in the ’80s and we made Duckie Brown in it, into a kind of slaughter—well that’s a harsh word—but there’s something about taking this desk, pushing everything off it, and start again,” said Cox with characteristic elan. And thus an oversized yellow suit (2016) worn with a pink blouse (new); a jacket adorned with trompe l’oeil beaded medals (2006) worn with their classic big shirt in red silk jacquard (new) and plaid trousers (2012); a gorgeous green cashmere coat (2007) worn over a paisley silk jacquard robe (new), and pink wide leg trousers (new). A red and blue patterned jacquard coat from 2014 looked just as amazing now as it did over a decade ago. All are for sale.
“The new pieces are all Duckie Brown favorites: the silk trousers, the tuxedo short, long skirt or dress, all done in crepe de chine and silk—we can’t do wool in Greece,” added Cox. They were primarily inspired by two things; the bathrobes worn by Josh O’Connor in The Durrells of Corfu; and the test swatches they painted on their studio walls in Brooklyn while trying to figure out the colors of the house in Greece. The pinks and greens from their kitchen and living room transposed into the clothes. (Frank, one of their best customers, has already taken home the kitchen-pink shirt). A terrific skirt made from a white fabric with the word SAMPLE printed on it came from their summer visit to SCAD, where they visited to advise the senior class and met a student by the name of Kaj Nielsen. “We really admired the fabric when we first met him and the next day he brought it to us, wrapped in a little bow,” Cox explained. They say home is where the heart is, but when the heart is built in to the clothes, then home can really be anywhere you want. We look forward to the next era of Duckie Brown.
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