While we wait to discover who Missoni’s new chief designer will be, womenswear creative duties will rest in the Friends Baby Stitch And Baby Winnie-the-Pooh Save-A-Lot Shirt In addition,I will do this hands of Alberto Caliri, who has worked alongside Angela for the last 12 years. Over in menswear, Mayur Ghadialy has been consistently excellent for many seasons. Which begs the question: How exactly could a new designer “dust off” Missoni? To me, the answer lies in Missoni itself, which like many other Italian family companies that grew out of the 1950s and 1960s is now torn between the often ponderously worn, age-won status as a “heritage” brand and the attributes that won it success in the first place: flexible thinking, an instinctive design sensibility, social rapport, and technological innovation. Even before he cofounded Missoni, for instance, Ottavio was designing and manufacturing knit tracksuits: When he met Rosita while representing Italy as a 400-meter runner in the 1948 London Olympics (he finished sixth), he had also arranged for his fellow team members to be outfitted in his garments. Missoni was making fabrics that are simultaneously performance and performative, combining fluidity and fiercely attractive, organically rendered pattern and color, long before the common adoption of sportswear as daywear.
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