DSquared’s Unusual Inspiration

We all seek for inspirations in our work but what kind of one designers need to create those masterpieces we admire so much?

Dsquared designers, Dean and Dan Caten, told they got their inspiration to become couturiers from their “hot older brother”, to be precise, from his attractive girlfriends.

The designer twins grew up with seven brothers and sisters and as it turned out their sibling’s pretty girlfriends sparked their interest in the fashion industry.

Dan commented:

We had a hot older brother. Like, seriously hot. He had so many hot girlfriends. Maybe it’s a Canadian thing, but everybody has to take their shoes off before they go indoors and we’re sitting on the landing when one of his girlfriends takes her shoes off in the hall. No lie, they were salt-stained suede wedges with little stars and crescent moons. Like, totally Stevie Nicks. And we would literally fight over who could put them on first.”

Dean and Dan are very famous now and they make costumes for stars like Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Madonna and Lenny Kravitz. But actually they started from styling family members, at the age of just 10.

Dan told Britain’s Grazia magazine:

Our sisters would come home and we would have customised their entire wardrobe. There was always a sister going to prom or on a date and we’d style them. I don’t think we even thought that fashion could be a job back then. And you have our dad in the background saying, ‘That’s not a real job!’ So we thought we might be dancers, because we were always dancing to Rod Stewart. Until we saw our dad’s station wagon pull up. Then the stereo went off and the heels came off.”

Thanks God, they didn’t become dancers, otherwise the world would be deprived of lots of wonderful pieces they create.

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