Dsquared2 SS25 at Milan Fashion Week

Dsquared2 SS25 at Milan Fashion Week, For Dsquared2 Spring/Summer 2025, twin creative masterminds Dean and Dan Caten turn up the heat while bringing a renewed sense of focus to their vision of maximal multiplicity for Dsquared2. The brand hones in on a sense of duality – between elegance and edge, softness and strength – but in doing so, creates one of their most unexpected, exciting, and undeniably sexy fashion mashups yet. It is a liberated community of artists, athletes, and aesthetes, an underground milieu that is poetry salon, wrestling league, and kink scene all in one.

As always, the Dsquared2 SS25 collection’s spirit of freeing multiplicity has its basis in Dean and Dan’s signature penchant for synthesizing innovative material treatments and imaginative details with cross-genre references to fringe fashion subcultures.

For Dsquared2 SS25 / Spring/Summer 2025, this practice takes shape as a particularly focused intersection of elegance and edge. Sheer chiffons cascade poetically around the body, but reveal skin-tight bondage harnesses or barely-there bralettes beneath. Denim peels away into sculptural latex. Asymmetrical sheer jersey tanks are treated with laminating techniques, balancing brutalist geometry and soft bodily harmony. Laces coil up legs, holding outer garments together but exposing the skin beneath. Broad-shouldered suits with voluminous pleated pants reference 80s workday ensembles, while leather biker jackets and thick-soled studded creepers suggest that same stylish character’s nocturnal alter ego.

The color palette, too, embodies a spirit of poetic softness anchored by the strength of desire: blush, dust, and powder-blue tones take on further depth and delicacy in translucent fabrics like chiffon and latex, but reworked bondage gear in black leather keeps things tied down. All the while, occasional pops of vibrancy or metallic shimmer punctuate the show’s transitional moments.

As the Dsquared2 SS25 / Spring/Summer 2025 collection progresses, the subtle sense of restrained athleticism develops into full-blown references to the glamorous, campy, and unintentionally (or is it?) erotic visual language of professional wrestling, playfully celebrating both its bravado and its predilection for skin-on-skin contact. Singlets hug the body in all the right ways as they peek out of sheer shorts, while the lace-up details of luchador regalia are pushed to S&M extremes.

This aspect of bodacious theatricality extends to the runway show’s staging at Milan’s historic Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber. As the iconic red velvet curtains raise, latex-clad figures dance in hanging cages to kick off the cabaret. Models emerge, transforming the theater’s stage and aisle into one runway. Fittingly, the heart-pumping soundtrack channels the sensual freak-funk of Lovesexy-era Prince, splicing together glam rock, soul, and sexy R&B to driving club beats.

Amplified by this sonic and visual backdrop, the Dsquared2 Spring/Summer 2025 collection from Dsquared2 brings the heat as a soulful and unabashedly sexy celebration of the freedom to embrace multiplicity.

DSQUARED2 – D2 Friends attended the SS25 Show :

Manuel Turizo, Bad Gyal, Mia Khalifa, Aron Piper, Tedua, Victor Perez, Benji Krol, Jashlem, Cameron Valentina Eyre, Chiara Capitani, Diletta Bonaiuti, Pyrex, Bresh, Korlan Madi, Beatrice Vendramin, Anna Dello Russo, Bryan Boy, Lyas, Hanan Besovich, Josh Beauchamp, Kyle Thomas, Lucas White Smith, Nils Kuesel, Patricia Manfield, Dolma Lisa, Jiang Mengjie, Ayanga, Alessandro Tarabini, Simone Cotellessa, Gabriele Esposito, Noah, Taiki, Carlos Parejo, Boggi, Alex Sanchez De Mora, Sam Salter, Sadiq Desh, Demi Oyenekan, Isha Van Dick, Marlon Noah, Taitù, Oliver Brynnum, Matteo Sinet, Olivia Valin, Amina Seck, Assurditè, Tommy May, Olaf Ernandez, Juan Utges, Til Joseph, Lin Lin, Shahin Awad, Jarvis Aivali, Jeon Changha, Nathane Azariah.

WHEN: Friday June 14th 2025 – Show @8.00pm

WHERE: Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber – Via Larga 14, 20122 Milan