Duckie Brown S/S 11 Show

Spring 2011 was a riot at Duckie Brown. Designers Steven Cox and Daniel Silver showed prints and colors, in proportions that demonstrated little rhyme or reason. It was a clear 180-degree turn from their Fall 2010 collection, with its relatively staid plaids and checks. Instead, the looks here became progressively wilder, starting with a gray top that billowed in the back paired with darker gray trousers and running through shiny zebra prints and neon camouflage and beetles marching across a sheer shirt. Colors ranged from toxic green to fluorescent pink, topped off by knit caps that sparkled. There were several long shirts, a notable trend for Spring, which appeared here in see-through fabric or gaudy prints. Cox and Silver seemed to be rejecting completely the tried-and-true, until you noticed the well-cut blazers and the sharp oversized plaids that took classic pieces and gave them that unexpected Duckie Brown twist.