"How Duckie can you get ?" asked the invite to Duckie Brown's show. The answer ? Very, judging from the impeccable collection design duo Steven Cox and Daniel Silver sent out in the Salon at Bryant Park.
While most of this season's collections ask girls to keep it chic with shoulder-baring micro-minis, Duckie Brown bet boys would want to beat the brrr all covered up with smothering scarves, ski masks and head-to-toe get-ups for the sartorially-inclined burglar in them. The real question was : what do you get when you mix a royal guard, a prison inmate and a SARS victim in Aspen ? A model on the Duckie Brown runway !
Gone were the gold sequins, drop-crotch pants and ginormous sweaters of seasons past. In their place : clean, classic wardrobe staples -the trench, 2-button suit, anorak, carpenter trouser, herringbone overcoat- that were almost minimalist in silhouette and execution.
Sure, DB's styling tricks -shiny turtlenecks pulled up to shield the models' noses and mouths, bright orange shearling gloves, face-engulfing scarves and knit hats with towering pompoms- lent a whimsical air to the proceedings. But take away these wink-wink accessories, and what was left was a rather subdued collection of seriously gorgeous, gorgeously simplified clothing, with all superfluous detail having been stripped away so that what remains is only the purity of cut, fabric and color. Subtract the wild Halloween orange, and Duckie Brown is the label to dress you for an event downtown.
While most of this season's collections ask girls to keep it chic with shoulder-baring micro-minis, Duckie Brown bet boys would want to beat the brrr all covered up with smothering scarves, ski masks and head-to-toe get-ups for the sartorially-inclined burglar in them. The real question was : what do you get when you mix a royal guard, a prison inmate and a SARS victim in Aspen ? A model on the Duckie Brown runway !
Gone were the gold sequins, drop-crotch pants and ginormous sweaters of seasons past. In their place : clean, classic wardrobe staples -the trench, 2-button suit, anorak, carpenter trouser, herringbone overcoat- that were almost minimalist in silhouette and execution.
Sure, DB's styling tricks -shiny turtlenecks pulled up to shield the models' noses and mouths, bright orange shearling gloves, face-engulfing scarves and knit hats with towering pompoms- lent a whimsical air to the proceedings. But take away these wink-wink accessories, and what was left was a rather subdued collection of seriously gorgeous, gorgeously simplified clothing, with all superfluous detail having been stripped away so that what remains is only the purity of cut, fabric and color. Subtract the wild Halloween orange, and Duckie Brown is the label to dress you for an event downtown.
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