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"After producing a string of increasingly well-received collections, Obedient Sons designers Swaim and Christina Hutson abruptly shuttered their label last month, promising that a new, yet-to-be-named brand would premiere in time for the next round of New York shows. Earlier this week, editors around town received specially made brass keys inscribed with the duo&amp;#39;s new moniker: Hutson. As advertised, the collection will make its debut this weekend (though in a less capital-intensive presentation format). Curious as to what they had in the works, we grabbed a few minutes of phone time with the couple.\n\nWith the new line, should we be expecting more of a clean break or a continuation?\n\n Christina: There are some similarities, since we&amp;#39;re the same people, but we tried to stick with more of a formula with Obedient Sons. Now we have the freedom to experiment a little with silhouettes and fabrications and things like that.\n\nMeaning we can expect a little more boundary-pushing?\n\n Swaim: Yeah, I think so. It&amp;#39;s definitely a departure from what we&amp;#39;ve done on the men&amp;#39;s side, for sure\u2026especially in terms of proportions. You know, we were kind of moving in that direction anyway, and when everything hit the fan it just made more sense to push it a little bit further. We could step away from what we had to do for Obedient Sons.\n\nSounds like you felt painted into a corner. \n\n S: We kind of felt pigeonholed.\u2026 We didn&amp;#39;t want to stray from what was working.\n\nHow, specifically, are you going to be pushing things? \n\n C: We kind of stuck to that slim, small fit. Now we&amp;#39;re experimenting with more oversized and loose proportions. Bigger tops, bigger jackets, extremely oversized outerwear.\n\n S: But all still tailored.\n\n C: Still us, but not so little.\n\nIsn&amp;#39;t it a challenge, though, to retain a tailored look while going bigger?\n\n S: It is. You have to have it fit somewhere\u2014if it&amp;#39;s on the hip, and then you loosen it up in the mid, and then back to fitting at the ankle, but I think we pulled it off.\n\n C: You&amp;#39;ll have to tell us.\n\nWhat, specifically, are you drawing inspiration from? \n\n C: This season we were more inspired by early thirties nightlife, which was kind of like this loose\u2026\n\n S: Nightlife\u2026?\n\n C: It was!\n\n S: Tell him the truth!\n\n C: But the women are more the brothel\u2026\n\n S: The guys are just hanging out in the brothel.\n\nIs that the Hutson man, just hanging out observing, looking good? \n\n S: Don&amp;#39;t take hanging out too literally\u2026[laughs] They&amp;#39;re in the brothel\u2026\n\nNoted. And let&amp;#39;s hope the thirties aren&amp;#39;t too apt of a decade, okay? \n\n S: We&amp;#39;re staying away from saying anything about the Great Depression.\n\nSmart move. But there is a pretty strong cultural\u2014not just economic, but cultural\u2014shift going on. How do you design for that?\u00A0 \n\n C: Because we&amp;#39;re such a small brand, I think we really thought about making each piece special, so there&amp;#39;s a reason to buy it.\u2026 I don&amp;#39;t think there&amp;#39;s room for any of the middle of the road anymore.\n\nSo who, really, is the Hutson man? \n\n C: [laughs] I&amp;#39;d say late 20s, early 30s.\n\n S: We kind of got pigeonholed with Obedient Sons with a younger fashion guy, and I think we&amp;#39;re going for a more polished fashion guy, if that makes any sense.\n\nIt absolutely does. So the new line gives you an opportunity to mature along with your customer.\n\n S: Yeah, to grow it up. Because that&amp;#39;s one thing we were fighting the whole time. The name evokes such a young thought, immediately.\n\nSo how did you come up with the new name? Seriously.\n\n S: [laughs] We thought it&amp;#39;s [we who are] ultimately doing this, so why not have to start all over again\u2026\n\n C: [Other names might be] more exciting for right now, but I don&amp;#39;t know in five years.\n\n S: Obedient Sons made sense in 2001, but as time went on, did it really make sense?\n\nInteresting that two Trovata alumni start Shipley &amp;amp; Halmos, and Obedient Sons begets Hutson. Maybe you guys are instrumental in a new trend. Stripping away what&amp;#39;s extraneous.\n\n C: Yes.\n\n S: Yeah.\n\nWell, we&amp;#39;ll know you&amp;#39;re onto something when Duckie Brown becomes Silver Cox.\n\n [laughter]\n\n TYLER THORESON Photo: Elissa Wiehn"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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