Duckie Brown

Steven Cox and Daniel Silver challenged themselves to pare back in more ways than one.

Menswear plays a poor relation to women's styles at New York Fashion Week, but it is enjoying faster-growing sales and consumer tastes that are becoming more daring, experts say.

In menswear, sex and power have been converging, evidenced by the mainstream adoption of the kind of slim suiting pioneered by Hedi Slimane and Thom Browne, says Cameron Wolf.

"London and New York's cultural exchange has a long and fascinating history, with ideas regularly passing back and forth, whether they are around

"Perry Ellis, it turns out, is still not ready to return to the designer market. A year into a collaboration with the Duckie Brown designers Steven