Dsquared2 Fall 2025: A Camp 30th Anniversary Blowout
After more than 30 years designing Dsquared2, the Caten brothers still can’t start a fashion show without an obscene delay, ignore Prince’s back catalogue, resist their camp proclivities, wear sensible shoes or say no to a party.
Their show on Tuesday night was as over-the-top as Naomi Campbell’s ginormous mane of hair as she did her best Tina Turner strut, her legs and cheekbones still to die for. This came after a dead ringer for Cher, hair flick and all; a youthful approximation of the rock band Kiss, turning 50 this year, and a parade of vintage cars, trucks and yellow taxis depositing rhinestone cowboys, femmes fatales, leather daddies and gym bunnies.
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American rapper Doechii set the tone for the indulgent display, stepping out of an armored vehicle and storming down the runway in a Dsquared2 version of a camping outfit: vertiginous heels, denim HotPants, a corseted parka and a backpack bulging with cash.
It felt more like a procession of downtown party people than a fashion show, heavy on glam rockers in towering platforms, Studio 54 go-go boys, biker babes and square-jawed “Brokeback Mountain” types.
Here and there were the bread and butter of the Dsquared2 business: low-slung jeans, trucker and trapper hats, clever slogan T-shirts, regular and Canadian tuxedos and sexy party dresses. This anniversary blowout also took in collaborations with Vaquera, Magliano and upcycling brand Bettter, all invited to interpret Dean and Dan Caten’s archive.
“We’re always trying to outdo ourselves,” Dan Caten said backstage, doffing his makeup cape to show off his ripped torso. “We have a story, we have lots to tell, and we have lots to look back at and to look forward to.”
In a poignant letter distributed before the show, the designing twins paid tribute to their muse and fairy godmother, Canadian photographer Julie Enfield, now in the late stages of Parkinson’s disease, who took them under her wing in 1976 when they were scrappy, wide-eyed Toronto kids. “You made us feel like we mattered — like maybe, just maybe, we could be somebody someday.”
No doubt she would be howling at the bravado of their runway bow: Dragged out of an NYPD patrol car in handcuffs by glamazon actress Brigitte Nielsen, who collared them toward the photo pit as if to say, “Guilty of fierce fashions.”
Launch Gallery: Dsquared2 Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection
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