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MILAN - You can take the boys out of Canada, but you can't take Canada out of the boys.
Dsquared's first retail outpost - on Via Verri here in the heart of the city's fashion quadrilateral - is a mountain high covered with a Milanese patina.
The 5,000-square-foot space, which carries men's, women's and accessories, had a soft opening over the summer, but designers Dan and Dean Caten officially will inaugurate the store on Thursday night during the women's spring collections here with an in-store fete.
The twins, known for their sporty, naughty designs, tapped up-and-coming Italian architectural studio Storage to translate their Canadian provenance - they hail from Toronto - and meld it into a contemporary retail look.
"The greatest challenge was coming up with a concept that's us," said...