With colorful knitwear, she and her husband, Ottavio, built one of the world’s most recognizable brands, helping to make Milan a capital of “alta moda.”
Rosita Missoni, who, with her husband, Ottavio Missoni, built a luxury clothing brand on a foundation of boldly colorful striped and zigzagged knitwear that helped make Milan a capital of Italian high fashion, died on Wednesday at her home in Sumirago, in Northern Italy. She was 93.
Her death was confirmed on Thursday by Angela Mariani, the communications consultant for Missoni.
What began in 1953 as a homespun venture for the Missonis was transformed in just a couple of decades into a leading fashion house with
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