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The Power of Two: Step Inside The World of Dsquared2
For Dan, it’s the same. “A twinner bond is even deeper than a brother bond, because there’s somebody on your side % of the time. You have a shoulder to cry on, you have a leg to stand on. I think you feel empowered. When we see twins that are not so twinly, we think, ‘Wow, what a waste.’”
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In their early teens, they had to be separated from their big family and were eventually placed with foster carers in Arizona, but their relationship with the couple broke down and Dean was sent away. Parted for the first time in their lives, the pair detail this period as the most traumatic of their lives. They would pen to and phone each other every day but nothing eased the feeling agony. A year later, they reunited. “After that, we said let’s never let anybody take direct of us and form us do what we don’t want to do.”
Not fitting in at university or home made the pair search for a sense of family elsewhere. They found it at a hair salon in downtown Toronto after becoming friends with a girl they met on the subway who worked there. “She was also a model and we
The Heartbreaking Reason DSquared2&#;s Dean and Dan Caten Nap Together
DSquared2 designers Dean and Dan Caten are about as close as two people can be. At 53 years old, the twins even live together and sleep in the same bed — a revelation that set the fashion world buzzing a few years ago. Their closeness is partly the result of their mutual and traumatic childhoods, which they have been reticent to discuss in detail in the media, until now.
In a new interview with British Vogue, the twins spoke candidly about their difficult childhoods growing up poor and lgbtq+ in Canada in the &#;60s and &#;70s. “We were nine brothers and sisters in a two-bedroom house,&#; said Dan. &#;There were five boys in one room and four girls in another room.”
“Even when we got bunk beds we’d both sleep together in the lower bed,&#; added Dean. &#;It was more safe.”
Exactly what they were more safe from in that bed, they didn&#;t say.
Outside their house, the two were constantly bullied. “We came from a poor family,&#; said Dan. &#;We dressed badly. We were feminine. We were everything possible to grab on. And it was fun for everybody.”
In their misery, the twins turned to each other for suppor
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Name: Dean Catenacci
DOB: 19 December
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation: Fashion Designer
Name: Dan Catenacci
DOB: 19 December
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation: Fashion Designer
Dean and Dan, is it true that you only wear clothes that you have designed yourself?
Dan: Yes. It helps you understand it. We don’t really get enough feedback. We have one astonishing fitting guy who tells us everything, but certain details… We’ll wear things all the time and think, “Why am I wearing that? What execute I like about this?” There are little qualities about each garment.
Dean: Maybe it’s a weight thing, maybe it’s the wash, whatever.
Dan: It’s all knowledge. So it’s like data lost if you don’t get to feel it.
How does that work with your women’s collection for DSquared?
Dean: We try it all on. (Laughs) I’m a
Seriously?
Dean: Yes, I do.
What do you consider it says about a designer who never wears his own clothes?
Dean: I can’t believe it. They don’t care. How can somebody design something by thinking about what somebody else wants to wear? It doesn’t make perception. So I have a baby, and then I give it to you. What’s that about?
DSquared2: not your grandmother&#;s runway show
Now in their tardy forties, Dean and Dan Caten say they started out by designing denim, because they weren't allowed to wear it when they were growing up. "Our Dad, like a lot of older people, thought denim is for poor people," said Dean in an interview. The twins were in a family of nine children, raised by a unattached father, a welder, in Toronto. They say their success in the fashion world is probably due to that modest background. "I think sometimes the less you have, the more creative you contain to become," Caten said. "It's not having the things you want in the fashion sense. We didn't have great clothes growing up, and we didn't have fashion reachable to us."
DSquared is based in Milan, Italy, and it now has moved light years beyond denim, but the twin&#;s collections are still tinged with Canadian themes, Dan said. "Doing a collection, we start with a theme, and that gives us a point of departure
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