Dsquared2.

Mon. 02/24/2014..











Dsquared2.

Dean and Dan Caten sure know how to Get Inspired! Every season the Caten Brothers come up with some Brilliant setting for their Fashion Escapades to take place and then create the Mise-En-Scene in Full Spectacular Detail! For Fall 2014, The Catens got the idea of a Mad Fading Diva who doesn't really want to accept that her moment in the Spotlight has past and that she is still the Grand Dame she once was... Except she's in a Psychiatric Ward! In The 60's! With the Hottest, Chicest Nurses in The Known Universe! And Perhaps, The setting is London or Rome... Not sure yet which!

Admittedly, It's a Situation RIFE With Possibility! Now, first off, Let's not make it out like the Catens are Arch, High Thinkers... There's no Deep Subtext or Societal Statements here... there's an Idea and a Setting and then the Brothers Create the Wardrobe for that setting. Fin! That's It! All shallow surface gloss, No Depth! Yet, in trying not to delve beneath the surface, the Dean and Dan are Unwittingly presenting a Thoughtful Social Satire! Beauty and Fame ultimately all fade, One can accept that and make a fulfilling life for oneself with their Acts and Deeds or they can Go Mad and continue to believe that.. They're Still Big, It's The World That Got Smaller!

In any case, The Catens put forth a Spectacular show, That even in it's Briefness was Jam-Packed with Stunning Evening wear and Deluxed Up Daywear! The Asylum chic offered some of the most Blazingly Hot White outfits to be seen since the Days of La Docle Vita! Six "Nurse" Exits that were crafted as Finely as any Haute Couture/Alta Moda that shows in January or July! They were THAT SICK! Pure Perfection!

The Grandly Operatic Opera Gowns that opened the show were like something from another era, Yet Strangely Apposite for now! After this Atypical opening, sort of like a Fashion Show in Reverse, Dean and Dan offered Short, Micro hemmed Day wear! The Catens can sometimes Tap-Dance on that line of Tasteful and Whorish. Sometimes, tripping onto the wrong side of that line, Today it was Tasteful all the way!

A Brief Dress in the most Vile shades to combine imaginable looked as Delicious and Mouth Watering as could be at Exit No. 15 whilst a Jazzy little Black Coat with Mink Stand Collar was Made even Jazzier by a Beaded panel at the front. By the end, the Inmates were Running the Asylum and the Girls that started the show, including the Nurses, were now all Decked out in Party Wear with one girl having the keys to the rooms hooked on her waist, as if to suggest that everyone was breaking out and ready to Dance the Night away!

It was a Camp Masterpiece. One of the Caten's Best, If not the Best. The Clothes were Achingly Gorgeous, The Set-up was Genuinely Inspiring... Every thing came together Beautifully to make this one a Showstopper!










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