Color is one of the big stories of this season s menswear shows, and no one took the theme more to heart than Duckie Brown. The line s designers, Steven Cox and Daniel Silver, didn t stick to one or two shades, though. They pulled out the full rainbow: apple red, turquoise, purple, orange, yellow, green. This worked most successfully in focused, well-tailored looks, like an electric-blue corduroy one-button suit with a blue X-ray-stripe shirt, or a green/navy gingham double-layered shirt jauntily paired with a green trouser and topped off with an orange bamboo hat. Elsewhere, the mix-and-match approach was less effective: for example, a turquoise superstripe short-sleeve shirt and green long-short combo, oddly accessorized with a gray-stripe bamboo scarf. Even in a misstep like this one, though, the design duo s talent for tailoring shone through. With their attention to fit and colorful flair, they are talents worth watching.
