DSquared with Madonna
Cutting edge designer duo D-Squared celebrates this year their 10th anniversary in the world of fashion. Here’s some excerpts from an interview to Dean and Dan Caten from the Toronto Star.
“They wanted to design women’s couture fashion, but twins Dean and Dan Caten realized that they were in a cash crunch- and women’s couture was too risky. The safer bet was to design a men’s ready-to-wear line.
The brothers had moved from Toronto to Italy in 1991 because they wanted to be “more than designers in Canada. We wanted international fame”.
“Madonna was our first big celebrity,” Caten remembers. “Madonna loves to be the one to find people.”
Her artistic director was sporting DSquared jeans, and Madonna decided that she wanted to wear the jeans in her Don’t Tell Me video.
Although the twins were not designing for women at the time, Madonna was the first exception. She wanted the Toronto natives to create clothing for her video, and for the western countries in her Drowned World Tour.
“We knew we made it then,” says Caten. “It was a really, really good feeling.”
From an interview by Sharda Prashad, Toronto Star