This year the MINI design team of Dean and Dan Caten, better known as the designer duo DSQUARED² presented initial sketches of the MINI they have designed exclusively for the 2011 Life Ball. It is a raised off-road version of the MINI Cooper S hatch. Although the sketch is of an R53 it expected the actual vehicle will be an R56. The brothers have long sought to design a MINI Cooper S in their very own style. Dean and Dan are thrilled with the assignment:
“If we were a car, it would be rugged and robust. Our MINI ‘Red Mudder’ is an accurate reflection of that. With the maple leaf on both doors and the DSQUARED² logo on the front shield and wheels, this is unmistakably our style.”
