In a serious strategic change Dsquared2 has ended its long-time licensing settlement with Employees Worldwide, the important thing working firm of Italian trend billionaire Renzo Rosso.
Dean & Dan Caten, by Giampaolo Sgura
“Dsquared2 Group announces the immediate termination of its licensing agreement with Staff International S.p.A. Consequently, the Group will assume direct control over the production and distribution of its Ready-to-Wear collections,” the Milan-based home mentioned in a terse launch Saturday. “This transition takes effect immediately and will commence with the upcoming Pre-Collection Spring/Summer 2026 sales campaign,” added Dsquared2, which was based by twin brothers Dean and Dan Caten over three many years in the past.
Employees Worldwide is the important thing manufacturing wing of Solely The Courageous, the holding firm of Rosso, which additionally owns Diesel, Marni, Maison Margiela and Jil Sander, in addition to the manufauring license of Viktor&Rolf. “Dsquared2 Group expresses its sincere gratitude to all those who have contributed to this collaboration and looks forward to fostering continued partnerships in the future,” the discharge added. The settlement with Employees Worldwide dates again to 2002, and helped gasoline the spectacular improvement of Dsquared2, the final runway model in Milan to have grown into a serious world trend model. Born in Willowdale, Ontario, Dean and Dan Caten (Catenacci, initially) started their profession path in trend by transferring to New York in 1983 to attend Parson’s College of Design. In 1991 they arrived in Italy the place in 1994, after quite a few collaborations with main trend homes, they first staged their debut runway assortment. It marked the primary in an extended line of runway extravaganzas that might seize the eye of journalists and patrons for his or her distinctive model of trend, music and theatre. The Catens went on to construct a multi-million greenback enterprise. And to costume everybody from Madonna in her iconic western video clip, “Don’t Tell Me”, to Beyoncé for her Tremendous Bowl efficiency. The duo additionally has a powerful vary, all the best way to dressing the four-time English Premiership Champions, Manchester Metropolis. And an awesome HQ, a former electrical vitality headquarters transformed into workplace, show-space, inn, health club and rooftop restaurant with swimming pool. They’ve turn into one of many metropolis’s nice trend establishments with out each shedding the DNA of the Wild North. And famed for his or her ovations, the place they take their bow in matching outfits – whether or not disco dragoons, Klondike trappers or matinee idols. Depart it to the Canadian duo to stage an epic thirtieth anniversary present in Milan this previous season, the solid marching out of a wrecked brick storage, or arriving in a sequence of mighty wheels. From armored personnel carriers and Ford Mustang convertibles to an all-silver DeLorean and a classic Rolls Royce – all took turns arriving within the large warehouse completed up like a nightclub.
All the Caten’s nice archetypes obtained an outing. Mad saucy trapper ladies in big puffers and many legs; a trio of rockers with Kiss goth make-up however in three-piece fits; Klondike gold diggers off to an all-night rave; attractive vampy rock goddesses with bumster leather-based pants and fur coats with trains; and a good looking black rodeo gal with mini cocktail manufactured from bands of Western belts. Resulting in the arrival with sirens of NYC police automotive, from which a dominatrix leather-based police captain performed by Brigitte Nielsen escorted two white collar criminals. You guessed it – Dean and Dan. And amid large roars, JT and Doechii took the ground in a name and response duet surrounded by the complete solid. Renzo Rosso’s trend holding firm OTB suffered a setback in 2024, seeing revenues fall 4.4 p.c at fixed change charges to 1.8 billion euros, recording EBITDA of 276 million euros and EBIT of 44 million euros. Retail (+7.4 p.c), Japan (+16.3 p.c) and North America (+13.3 p.c) held up. Among the many manufacturers within the portfolio, Maison Margiela (+4.6 p.c) and Diesel (+3.2 p.c) carried out positively. Previously fiscal 12 months, the Vicenza-based firm sustained investments of 77 million euros, with a give attention to the growth of the retail community and main innovation initiatives. The departure of DSqyared2 will likely be seen as a setback for Rosso, who has lengthy praised the model as a dynamic artistic power.
