DSquared2's Potion Packs Quite a Punch.

DSquared2's Potion is a strange and curious beast - straddling the alluringly sexy yet medicinal camps, this potion becomes addictive like too much cinnamon in an apple pie or over sweet honey in tea.  I like it though.DSquared2 have a habit of ramping up the gayness in clothing and advertising but this men's scent has gone all 'het' on us and more's the better.  Photographed by Mario Sorrenti

Chutzpah's Weekly Barometer

A light hearted look back over the past week’s good, bad and indifferent including the “don’t even go there’s”.
LOVINGTHE OPIATES 'RAINY DAYS AND SATURDAYS' - For those readers too young to remember Electribe 101, Billie Ray Martin has been producing and singing sublime meisterwerks for over twenty years. Find out why the cognoscenti call her "The Queen of Electronic Soul" HERE. The Opiates'

DSquared2's stunning A/W '11 campaign by Mert & Marcus

Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott may be well known for their compelling fashion photography, but the industry's favourite go-to guys have surpassed themselves in their work for the rapidly approaching Autumn/Winter campaigns.  

Not content with shooting dynamic imagery for Tom Ford, Versace, and Loewe, Mert and Marcus have now trained their lenses on DSquared2's Fall collection.



Titled 'Tribute

DSquared2 S/S '12 Menswear review

Versace aside, this week has seen the Italian fashion houses curb their excesses.  Thank God then for Dean and Dan Caten, whose signature humour and bawdy theatricality livened up the final day of Milan menswear week.



The DSquared2 Spring/Summer 2012 collection is basically a production in four acts (witness the stage door in the background), based around the European tour which is now a

Adam Kimmel's comfortable casual separates for A/W 11

New Yorker Adam Kimmel’s inspiration for his Autumn/Winter collection is a recent sojourn to the backwaters of America’s Pacific Northwest and, in particularly, his host during that time, the artist Dan Attoe.



The result may resemble comfortable, casual separates and sturdy, honest-to-goodness workwear (a natural progression from Kimmel’s recently announced collaboration with heritage brand

DSquared2 Continue to Wow with a Dash of Amish.

Before I go any further, I have to confess to a conflict of interest. I love DSquared2 clothes.  I love the cut, the humour, the butch, blatant machismo. I buy them and I wear them to death.
There’s something comfortingly old school about a DSquared2 collection. Whilst other designers may concentrate on a silhouette or a detail, Dean and Dan Caten link their clothes through themes, seasonally

DSquared2 Spring 2011 Campaign preview II: FeiFei Sun, Photo: Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Stylist: Katie Grand

Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott photographed FeiFei Sun for the spring 2011 DSquared2 campaign in Los Angeles on October 30, 2010 with stylist Katie Grand.

Dsquared2 Spring 2011 Campaign
Model: FeiFei Sun
Photographer: Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott
Stylist: Katie Grand
Art Director: Giovanni Bianco
Makeup: Tom Pecheux
Hair: Paul Hanlon
Production: Roz Norman at LaLa Land

DSquared2 Spring 2011 Campaign preview: FeiFei Sun, Photo: Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Stylist: Katie Grand

Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott photographed FeiFei Sun for the spring 2011 DSquared2 campaign in Los Angeles on October 30, 2010 with stylist Katie Grand.

Dsquared2 Spring 2011 Campaign
Model: FeiFei Sun
Photographer: Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott
Stylist: Katie Grand
Art Director: Giovanni Bianco
Makeup: Tom Pecheux
Hair: Paul Hanlon
Production: Roz Norman at LaLa Land

DSquared2 Fall 2010 Campaign Preview: Iris Strubegger and Alla Kostromichova, ph: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggot, stylist: Camilla Nickerson

DSquared2 Fall 2010 Campaign Preview
Models: Iris Strubegger and Alla Kostromichova
Photographers: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott
Stylist: Camilla Nickerson
Hair: Garren
Makeup: Charlotte Tilbury
Art Director: Giovanni Bianco
Set Designer: Gerard Santos
Special Thanks: James Scully
Preview from: Vogue.it