Moschino shreds fashion rules and Dsquared2 turns up the heat on the first day of Milan Fashion Week

By COLLEEN BARRY
AP Fashion Writer

MILAN (AP) — Milan Fashion Week of mostly menswear previews has opened with two co-ed collections, underlining that the old calendar rules no longer apply. The week usually reserved for menswear is a lighter one, featuring just 20 runway shows and allowing time for reflection amid the usual hubbub. Adrian Appiolaza took the rules and literally shredded them on Friday in his second season as Moschino creative director. Canadian designing twins Dean and Dan Caten turned the heat up with a men’s and women’s collection for their Dsquared2 fashion house long on suggestive, transgressive looks. The Catens energized the theater of fashionistas with a troupe of male dancers grooving in unison under red lights in what they called “bodacious theatricality.”