DSquared2 SS14: Welcome to the Tiki party

If anyone was feeling jaded after the early morning flight from London, they were soon jolted into alertness by the exuberant, high-octane kitsch-fest that was the DSquared2 SS14 show. A full-blown tiki bar was set up on stage, complete with totem sculptures, a bamboo bar and Dean and Dan Caten shaking up cocktails behind it. And the clothes matched the setting; glossy bronzed supermodels pouted down the sandy runway in heavily embellished raffia girdles, va-va-voom tiger print bikinis and full-skirted 50s dresses that would make a prom queen blush. When we met them backstage afterwards the designers explained that their cat-eyed, long-limbed girl was intended to be 'the hottest girl on the beach' and with a neon-lipped bouffant-haired Lindsay Wixson leading the pack in tiny jewelled knickerbockers, it wasn't at all hard to buy into their vision, palm trees and all.