Nobody serves raunchy hotness (and sex) in Milano like DsQuared2‘s Caten twins. The backdrop scenario from yesterday’s spring-summer 2024 fashion show: a penthouse overlooking Miami Beach where porn star Rocco Siffredi was (pretending to) film (what else?!) a porn movie starring Julia Fox enjoying herself (euphemistically speaking) with an unidentified partner on a four poster bed hidden from view (barely) by a screen. Guests attending the show were treated to the aforementioned vignette serving as the catwalk’s backdrop, with an aside of moaning by Donna Summer’s “Love To Love You Baby.” Everyone familiar with Dean and Dan Caten knows their irrepressible naughty, funny streak. But here they surpassed themselves. “It’s steamy. Sexual versus proper. WASP-y country club versus raunchy. Privileged upper crust trying out adult entertainment,” they chanted in unison. “Elites meet snob. Snob meets knob.” The collection was a barely-there rendition of the Catens’ 2000s mash-ups, reduced to a minimum of body coverage. Yet the humor made the bawdiness of the show outrageously entertaining. After an endless parade of preppy-golf-tennis wear hybridizations with plenty of exposed underwear (for guys) and a series of almost-in-a-state-of-undress minidresses, one skimpier than the other (for girls), out came Fox, clad in a virginal white lace babydoll, all frills and ruches (an homage to ’90s porn star Cicciolina perhaps?) But the cherry on the over-the-top cake was the finale, with Rocco Siffredi taking to the catwalk and opening his blue blazer to reveal a red T-shirt emblazoned with the acronym V.I.P. – Very Important Penis. I’m here for sex and fun having a big return to fashion, and DsQuared2 leads the game.

Collage by Edward Kanarecki.
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