DSQUARED2 Show at Style.Uz Art Week 2013

DSQUARED2 showed at the Hotel International Tashkenton the second day of Style.Uz Art Week 2013.  The collection reflected the retro glam of the ‘50s. The setting was a tiki bar on the sandy beaches of a tropical island.  Women sashayed down the sand sprinkled runway with voluminous wavy hair sporting fun butterfly sunglasses and conical hats, while dapper men with black rim glasses wore smart suits with bow ties.   The animal print trend continues with high cut bathing suits in leopard and zebra print.  DSQUARED2, famous for putting on elaborate and highly stylized shows, brought their usual showmanship to Tashkent. 

Ms. Gulnara Karimova (founder of Style.Uz Art Week) and Designers Dean and Dan Caten.

Italian fashion house Dsquared2 was founded by identical twin brothers Dean and Dan Caten born in Canada.   The brothers design men's and women's apparel, foot ware and fragrances.  Their designs have been worn by the like of Madonna, Ricky Martin and Justin Timberlake. 

Style.Uz Art Week 2013: Kosuke Tsumura, Final Home Fashion Show

Koksuke Tsumura's Final Home showed his collection with a runway show at Style.Uz Art Week 2013.  Kosuke Tsumura is an acclaimed Japanese fashion designer, who in 1994 created the survival brand Final Home.  Its concept is "Survival - Protection - Function - Recycle".  The creativity of the Final Home also resides in their ability to use a wide variety of materials from filters to air conditions to 'akasuri' (a cloth used to scrub oneself in a bath).  The brand also designs other products such as sofas made form cardboard or candles made of chocolate.  I spoke to Mr. Tsumura backstage about his inspiration, which he said was the future and materials.  He said that people used to think that natural materials were primitive, but now new chemical and manmade materials are considered primitive.  Tsumura considers his designs as art and not fashion.

Final Home's jackets are multi-purpose and utilitarian.  When its pockets are stuffed with newspapers, they protect the wearer from the bitter cold. When filled with emergency goods, it becomes an evacuation jacket. 

With Designer Kosuke Tsumura