mens-fall-collections 2009
Dsquared2 Collection
January 20, 2009
Dsquared2 Men's RTW Fall 2009
Gotta dance. That was the message of Dsquared’s Ziegfeld Follies-inspired jaunt. The twins are usually terrific executing merry themes, but this time the collection fell short of the expectations raised by a grand-staircase stage set and a dramatic ballroom-dancing demo. The first few looks suggested Dsquared might revisit one of its strongest propositions to date: mixing old-fashioned formalwear and denim with great flair. It updated that concept with utility garb like cargo pants and engineer-striped caps. A bold new pant silhouette, low-slung and baggy, was the biggest news of the show. But then, leather hunting vests and shearling jackets weaved a puzzling, outdoorsy subplot into the story, before the designers veered into business-like tailored looks with dashes of plaid, and finally came back to decadent formalwear including a gorgeous astrakhan coat. Granted, the mixing of high and low, day and night, old and new can be wonderfully chic. But hodge-podge was definitely not the style of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, and in Dsquared’s case, it almost came off as a plea: Hey big spender, buy something, anything.
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- Maier, Tomas
- Malandrino, Catherine
- Mansell, Kevin
- Marant, Isabel
- Marciano, Maurice
- Marciano, Paul
- Margiela, Martin
- Markfield, Roger S
- Marras, Antonio
- McCartney, Stella
- McCollough, Jack
- McComb, William L
- McQueen, Alexander
- Mendel, Gilles
- Meyrowitz, Carol
- Miele, Carlos
- Miller, Nicole
- Mischka, James
- Missoni, Angela
- Mizrahi, Isaac
- Montgomery, R Lawrence
- Moralioglu, Erdem
- Mulleavy, Kate
- Mulleavy, Laura
- Murphy, Glenn
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