jade appeal: Chat with Duckie Brown

The past few days have been interesting, Daniel Silver of Duckie Brown emailed me saying he and Steven Cox like my blog and stuff, so we emailed back and forth for a little while. I had some questions I wanted to ask so they suggested I call them. Before doing that I tried to think of a bunch of Pulitzer prize worthy questions to ask. So I watched a bunch of Jeanie Becker Interviews etc thinking that would somehow make me a professional journalist.

Ok so I call them and being the nervous spazz that I am, I forget basically everything I was going to ask say....Also while in my nervous haze I didn't write anything they said down or anything so I am officially the worst interviewer ever...I did manage to retain most of what was said...it went something like this:

"What was your inspiration for the collection?' They don't have any specific inspiration; , they are inspired by everything. They dont sit and make mood boards or watch films etc...For instance this collection evolved around a white T-shirt. They play around with a print or silhouette(I kind of had the idea that most designers woke up in a dream like state like Karl Lagerfeld and just started drawing stuff, or like watched a Sofia Coppola or Wes Anderson movie and all of a sudden got inspired)

"Is designing for a label other then your own something you would like to do in the future,or a collaboration an H & M sort of thing?" Yes they would love to design for a fashion house...as far as the collaboration they would love to do an H&M type thing, and have already collaborated on a line of shoes with Florsheim.

"How about relationships with other designers..is there any animosity, do you get together?"They don't sit around and brain storm or design together.. lol obvs...But they see each other at CFDA events. No there is no animosity.

"what is like designing with a partner as apposed to designing alone?" Daniel silver has never really designed on his own ..although he used to design gloves by himself and then from there he became a tv producer which taught him how to bring people together.Steven went to school so he has designed for himself before, but....
Duckie Brown wouldn't be Duckie Brown with out the partner aspect so they can't imagine it any other way.

"Where do you guys see youself in 10 years"..Duckie brown lives in the now.

"Are there any shows they look forward to other then their own" Yes Comme des Garcons, Vivienne Westwood, Yohji Yamamoto, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano etc. They tend to look at women's wear labels more, and as far as menswear go's they like Patrick Evrell, Thom Browne etc.

"What would be the your signature piece be, Burberry has the trench coat, what is yours?" a drop crotch pant, or a two button blazer.

"How would you describe the Duckie Brown man?" Duckie Brown is all inclusive, there isn't a "Duckie Brown man" from hipsters to business men Duckie Brown is for anyone and everyone

And here's some email Q&A that took place afterwards:

Ok so jack and lazaro of Preonza Schouler recently collaborated on a film with
Harmony Korinne kind of like telling the story behind there collection etc...Do you think that's something you would
like to do with Duckie Brown, and if you did what photographer/ Director would you want to work with, what would
the story be/how would it look?

WE WOULD LOVE TO COLLABORATE ON A FILM TELLING OUR STORY

THERE IS ONE COMING OUT ON VICE MAGAZINE SHORTLY AND WE HAVE JUST STARTED FILMING A STORY ABOUT THE GUTS OF DUCKIE BROWN - STAY TUNED

What is the best and worst thing about being a designer today?
CREATIVE FREEDOM

If you could change one thing about the fashion industry what would that thing be?
THE INDUSTRY IS NOT FOR US TO CHANGE

and are there any misconceptions about being a fashion designer you would like to clear up?

IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT MODELS AND CHAMPAGNE

So that was basically it...Again, I was really nervous etc that was the first time I had ever interviewed anyone ever so at least I remembered to speak. It was really great getting a chance to talk to them both though, they are really great guys, and I'm so glad I got the chance to speak with them.