From the log cabin to the disco, with a quick pit stop at the office: This is what the Caten twins suggest as a Pre-Fall itinerary. The log cabin in question is located somewhere in the Great White North; being Canadians, they know a thing or two about freezing weather and snowy woods—even if, by their own admission, they’re not particularly sporty types. And actually the collection didn’t put too much emphasis on sportswear. “It’s more about the weekend,” they explained. “Our girl takes long walks in the forest, or she goes shopping.”
This season, the guys wear roomy sweatshirts printed all over with beer logos (no teetotalers here); the girls will venture outside only if luxuriously wrapped in huge faux-fur coats imitating coyote or wolf, worn over patchworked plaid skirts and washed denim shirts layered under thick hand-knit striped sweaters, completing the look with sexy thigh-high, stacked-heel leather boots. “This season it’s all about the boots!” the twins said in unison.
Classic Canadian curling sweaters were reworked into hyper-chunky versions padded for extra warmth for the boys, while their feminine variations were shrunken into small waistcoats worn over checkered flannels and corduroy cropped pants. The outerwear-centered guys’ wardrobe was heavy on lumberjack shirts, blanket coats, massive shearlings, and buffalo-fleece jackets, while the women’s maxicoats referenced Ali MacGraw’s style in the 1978 Sam Peckinpah movie Convoy, in which she starred alongside the roughly handsome Kris Kristofferson.
Every weekend sadly comes to an end, and even Dsquared2’s fun-loving fans need clothes for the office. Enter of-the-moment, back-in-style tailored suits, cut relaxed and easy with blazers soft like sweaters for the guys, or sharply for the girls. After long working hours, of course, one craves a good party. “She’s got night fever,” the designers said. You bet. Dressed to kill in a golden tuxedo, or wrapped in a look-at-me, see-through tulle minidress that leaves very little to the imagination, off she goes, escorted by her dapper boyfriend, looking cool in a black velvet tux, worn with a pair of faded denim pants.
