Dsquared
Designers: Dean and Dan Caten

• For those who dare, bottoms can be worn practically bare next season, with DSquared’s spring/summer 2013 range of extremely mini all-in-ones, hot-pants turned thongs, and dresses made of straps that left nothing to the imagination.” {AFP}
• “The Canadian twins behind the DSquared label hit the ‘excess’ button on their spring-summer 2013 womenswear collection, which was four parts black biker chic and one part ruffles and ribbons.” {The Associated Press}
• “A collection long on mood but short on actual garments … The bulk of the collection was just artifice, an excuse to put Amazon women in spike heels and watch them sashay. It was a voyeuristic approach that was less about admiration and more about objectification.” {The Daily Beast/Newsweek}
• “Holy gams! Dean and Dan Caten served up a 31-look homage to nineties supes sporting loads of leather, ample bling, and a mostly brief hemline situation (even the ruffled, cheetah print-lined cupcake poof of a finale frock was leggy as can be).” {Daily Front Row}
• “The show notes put it like this: ‘Chiffon soufflés, legs a go-go! Leather pleasures, biker couture…O.P.U.L.E.N.C.E. She owns everything, less is more, but more is not enough!’ ..Fun? Yes. Camp? Of course. And to sum up? Sometimes, there are just no words…” {ELLEuk.com}
• “A familiar raunchy style, with models sashaying down the runway dressed as Las Vegas show girls.” {International Herald Tribune}
• “Like being transported back to the Sound Factory Bar of New York in the early 1990s, watching George Michael videos, camping it up with RuPaul and imagining what it would be like to be photographed by Scavullo.” {On The Runway/The New York Times}
• “All in all, a fun, sexy ride.” {Style.com}
• “It was so Nineties.” {Vogue.com UK}
• “A mash-up of Nineties Versace, Chanel and Moschino.” {WWD}