Days before the Duckie Brown dudes were preparing to show their fall 2022 collection, the brand’s Instagram was hacked. That was Steven Cox and Daniel Silver’s direct line to their customers—where they sold not only their products but their story. To solve the issue, they started a new account from scratch, @duckiebrownduckiebrown. The Instagram fiasco wouldn’t be of much note except that their fall 2022 collection is one of their Duckiest Browns yet—with twice the punch of their usual shapes and colors. “It’s the guts of Duckie Brown,” Cox said over Zoom.
The voluminous, oversize shirting that has garnered them many fans of late continues here in bubblegum pink and citron. Tiny gym shorts reappear as well, all the better to show off those gams you’ve been honing swimming in the Aegean sea! The most ingenious creation might be an overcoat with the shoulders pulled forward that was inspired by the way a dog’s coat is cut, with armholes projecting straight out of the chest. “We went to storage and pulled out our favorites,” said Cox.
So many of those favorites were tailored originally by Rocco Ciccarelli, the famed New York tailor who helped the Duckies get started and also created the basic shapes at Thom Browne. The essentials they established together, casually sharp tailoring, coats in the most beautiful fabric—“the same fabric they use at Buckingham Palace,” says Silver—are paired with the dudes’ own classics: aprons, short shorts, drop-crotch pants, big shirts, and sweatshirts with contrasting front panels. It’s not new-new, but it is both important and patently gorgeous. Duckie Brown is one of the last remaining brands doing it New York style—hardcore fashion with a sentimental edge. Let’s hope they get their Instagram account back, if for nothing but the sheer fact that a new generation needs to learn more about these masterful tailors.
