The usually ebullient crowd at Duckie Brown was a tad quieter this afternoon. As guests waited for the show begin, conversation inevitably led to the death of Alexander McQueen. In an unexpected Hitchockian twist, two lost sparrows flew among the crowd, causing people in the front row to duck manically while in the middle of conversations.

The dub music that opened Duckie Brown's Fall 2010 show gave it all away: the '80s rude boy is back. The fitted pants paired with boots and oversized jackets brought a new spin to the shrunken suit stylings popularized by Thom Browne. Duckie Brown upped the sartorial references by adding a ska edge to the mod influences.

The upbeat collection featured clashing plaids and injections of bright color, as seen in a lipstick-red overcoat and a bright yellow trench. Socks were exposed, boots were laced high and pants were fitted; the looks balanced a street edge with exacting tailoring.

The work was unapologetically Anglophile and emerged out of nostalgia, the Duckie Brown designers said. "It was about me, England, my family and it was about the boys that I went to school with," co-designer Steven Cox said. "But doing it in the way that we would do it."

"We just thought, 'Let's do all things English,' " co-designer Daniel Silver added. "We just went with it. Although we take liberties because we're Duckie Brown, there was a very strict sense of the rude boy. "