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Italian fashion house founder Rosita Missoni dies aged 93
Local officials offered condolences and recalled Missoni’s ties to the small northern city of Gallarate where the brand was born in an artisan’s shop in
Born Rosita Jelmini, Missoni grew up in a family that owned a textile factory that produced shawls.
When she met and married Ottavio Missoni, they founded their eponymous mode house in Gallarate that would vända into a fashion dynasty, with the couple’s three children and their offspring involved in expanding the brand.
The Missonis got their first break in , when the Rinascente department store commissioned colourful vertically striped shirt dresses — the first to carry the Missoni label.
The Missonis first showed their collection in Milan in and the brand helped vända the city into a fashion mecca.
Their signature fashions, with the trademark graphic zigzags, long had a reputation for wearability and for surviving many seasons of changing trends. Family members we
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Rosita Missoni, matriarch of fashion house beyond iconic zigzag knitwear, dies aged 93
Rosita Missoni, the matriarch of the famed Italian fashion house that transformed colourful zigzag-patterned knitwear into high fashion and helped shape the Italian ready-to-wear industry, has died at the age of
Missoni passed away peacefully on Wednesday (1 January), as confirmed by a joint statement from Missoni SpA and the Missoni family.
Local officials in Gallarate, the northern town where the Missoni brand was born in , paid tribute to the fashion icon on Thursday, recalling her deep connection to the community.
Born Rosita Jelmini, Missoni was raised in a family that owned a textile factory producing shawls. She met Ottavio Missoni, and together they founded the Missoni brand in Gallarate. Their fashion house would go on to become a global dynasty, with their three children and later their grandchildren taking key roles in expanding the brand.
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Rosita Missoni, Co-Founder of Famed Eponymous Fashion House, Dies at 93
Rosita Missoni, co-founder of the Italian fashion house Missoni, has died. She was
Attilio Fontana, president of the northern Italian region of Lombardy confirmed her death per the AFP, writing in a statement: "The passing of Rosita Missoni, a Lombard stylist and entrepreneur known throughout the world, saddens us. A great loss for Italy, Lombardy and for the province of Varese where she was born and lived."
Missoni co-founded the fashion house — famous for bright, geometric knitted designs — alongside her husband Ottavio. The brand’s signature colorful zigzag designs were praised by Fontana as well as New York Times fashion journalist Bernadine Morris, who said in that they had "elevated knitting to an art form."
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