Duckie Brown
The morning after the first day of fashion week means two things: 1) being cripplingly hung over; and 2) racing to make Duckie Brown on time. Designers Steven Cox and Daniel Silver do their best to collectively knock everyone out of their morning coma by conducting an entire show in silence or pairing a sheer blue camo shirt with oversized houndstooth pants and Wallabies. There’s a palpable sense that Cox and Silver just don’t give a flying fuck what you think. The result of that kind of thinking can be very juvenile or entirely refreshing. Thankfully, the latter applies here. A gluttony of patterns dominated Duckie Brown’s spring show: plaids, paisleys, stripes, ginghams, and every animal under the African sun. Yet, between looks of pink paisley pants and tiger stripe shirts were muted, understated tailored pieces that were more Marni than Jeremy Scott. Breadth is certainly not really a problem at Duckie Brown.

Steven Alan
If you went into Steven Alan’s Spring presentation looking for a bold direction or a statement piece you were sorely disappointed, and kind of an idiot. This isn’t a criticism of Alan or the collection in anyway at all. For years, Steven Alan has aspired to make the downtown dude not look like a slob during his days off. About as dressed-up as his Spring collection got was a bow tie… paired with shorts and espadrilles. Again, which is fine because it gets hot as hell during the summer, and wearing a polka-dot bow tie with shorts isn’t a bad option under those circumstances. One suit did make an appearance, albeit of the single-button double breasted khaki variety that has open collar written all over it. No job interviews or black tie reveling here, only lazy days off.