Ottavio Missoni Dies at 92
Ottavio Missoni, co-founder of the Missoni brand, died this morning at the age of 92. According to a statement from the brand, Ottavio “passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by his family,” in Sumirago, Italy.
Angela Missoni
Thursday May 9th, 2013
Thursday January 10th, 2013
Missoni to Show Menswear Collection as Scheduled But Family Probably Won’t Attend
“In order to give continuity,” the Missoni company said its menswear show will take place in Milan Sunday as scheduled. WWD reports it will be shown “solely to press and buyers.”
Monday January 7th, 2013
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Still No Sign of Plane Carrying Vittorio Missoni, Family Holds Out Hope [Updated]
As you may have heard, reports surfaced this weekend that a small plane carrying Vittorio Missoni (the eldest of three heirs to the Italian fashion house and current CEO of the brand), his wife, Maurizia Castiglioni, and two other Italians, disappeared off the coast of Venezuela Friday. Three days later, the search continues for the missing plane.
Thursday November 15th, 2012
After the Success of Target Collaboration, Missoni Plans To Launch a Lower-Priced Line
The frenzy surrounding the Missoni for Target collaboration (remember how it crashed Target’s website?) really made an impression on the Missoni family. They are reportedly planning to launch a lower priced line in the near future.
Tuesday March 20th, 2012
Last Night’s Party: Artist Liu Bolin Had To Massage Jean Paul Gaultier’s Leg While He Stood For His Harper’s Bazaar Portrait
Fashion and art collided head-on last night at the Eli Klein Fine Art gallery in Soho during the opening of Chinese artist Liu Bolin’s exhibition, “Lost in Art”, which included a high fashion collaboration (not of the H&M variety). For those of you who don’t subscribe to Harper’s Bazaar (disclosure: I do), the magazine collaborated with the contemporary artist to literally paint larger-than-life fashion designers Alber Elbaz, Angela Missoni, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli of Valentino and Jean Paul Gaultier — who was on hand, working the crowd — into the background.
Liu is quite renowned in highbrow (and deep-pocketed — the large size of the pieces sell for $36,000 a pop) arty circles for his quiet but striking conceptual photos featuring himself painted into culturally and historically important locales in China. Harper’s Bazaar special projects director Laura Brown happened to have stumbled upon his work at a Stockholm gallery recently, whipped up this collaboration and skillfully made it work.
Monday October 31st, 2011
Missoni Wants to Do Another Lower-Priced Line, Possibly With Macy’s
Are you one of the many who missed out Missoni for Target? If so, don’t fret: It probably won’t be long before you’ll have another chance to snag some affordable Missoni. In news that should surprise no one, the Missonis say they plan to follow the wildly successful Target collaboration with another lower-priced line. And they may go the route that many high-end designers have been going of late: Macy’s.
The Los Angeles Times‘s Booth Moore interviewed three generations of Missoni (Angela, Rosita and Margherita) to chat about the phenomenon that was their internet-crashing collaboration with Target as well as tentative plans to do another low-priced collaboration.
Monday September 26th, 2011
Fashion News Roundup: Lady Gaga Sued Her Own Fan, Angela Missoni Didn’t Graduate High School And Hello Kitty for Forever 21
June Ambrose is Getting a VH1 Show: The stylist to Jay-Z and Alicia Keys will get her own show in early 2012, but don’t expect a Rachel Zoe copy; she’ll dress her big clients but also give style and brand advice to emerging talents. {Stylelist}
Your Exclusive Prada Bag Is Actually Made in India: Prada used to source their materials from India and ship them to Italy, but now they’re cutting out the shipping costs by making them at the source and then charging more for the cheaper-made piece. They’re reasoning? The “Made In India” label is exclusive. {Racked}
Lady Gaga Sued Her Own Fan Site: Gaga’s team sued the operators of LadyGaga.org (est: 2008) claiming they “intentionally registered the domain name to capitalize on Lady Gaga’s fame.” But the site doesn’t actually make any money, only gives love to their Queen, so the courts ruled against it. Odd for someone who claims to love her fans so much, don’t you think? {Styleite}
Tuesday January 11th, 2011
Behold: Leighton Meester for Missoni
Missoni has released their spring campaign on Vogue Italia‘s website, including the all important image of Leighton Meester. Meester’s not the solo star of the campaign, which features a large group of creative types and acquaintances of the Missoni family. Socialites, artists, and royalty, including Eugenie Niarchos, Lissy von Thurn und Taxis, Tatiana Santo Domingo Read more →
