Milan Fashion Week: DSquared2 S/S 2012

DSquared2 Spring 2012 at Milan Fashion Week SUCH is the influence of summer's festivals on fashion sense that DSquared2 duo Dean and Dan Caten took it and ran with it for their spring/summer 2012 collection

today.

Their festival of choice? Glastonbury - and all of its dishevelled glamour. These guys never do a theme by halves (remember Dean and Dan go camping or Dean and Dan do the Rocky Horror Show?), and so the catwalk space became a festival tent with a stage and camper van up at the top with the models – or rather festival-goers – stepping and rocking out onto the muddied catwalk, which became the downfall of one as her stiletto wellington boot got stuck.

But then as the line-up told us (code for the show notes), these guys and gals love mud – it's part of their look. It has to be a bit shabby and a bit like looking they don’t care to work.

To crowd cheers, they walked beer in hand and fringed bag over shoulder – beaten up denim and studded jackets across their backs and mini denim shorts, studded belts, heavily and overly embellished waistcoats of Seventies hippy style, glittered eyes, glittered T-shirts or those with American flags wound round them, hats, mini skirts, maxi billowy skirts , fringing, sequins. This girl had stayed out all night long and the next morning the party was only just beginning all over again.

Checked shirts were tied around waists, bikinis were beaded (even at a festival, there will always be an occasion for a bikini in the DSquared eyes) and there was even a series of eveningwear-y looks if festival attire indeed even can be – with more beading and fringing in black and shimmering shades.

OK, so it was more about the styling here really, but it was a whole lot of fun and certainly made for a wake-up call to a normal Monday morning – the fashion pack, too, finding themselves playing their own part as they all held up their phones and blackberries to snap pictures of the boys playing around in the mud and consequently looking like they were holding up lighters as you might at a festival.

Whether you go to one or not next summer, the festival look has fallen into the main fashion stream – how much you choose to embrace it (here it was full on), is up to you.