One of this year's major events
at the Fashion and Textile Museum in the UK capital will be an
exhibition paying homage to the high-end fashion house Missoni
as well as twentieth-century artists that influenced the
ever-colorful creations.
'Missoni, Art, Color' was organized by the Gallarate Museum
of Modern Art (MAGA) in collaboration with The Woolmark Company
and will from May 6 show visitors photos, works and objects
bearing witness to the human and professional adventure of
Ottavio Missoni and his wife Rosita, from whom he was
inseparable.
The couple were together for over half a century and first
met in London during the 1948 Summer Olympic Games, when the
future fashion designer participated in the 400-m hurdles event.
'Tai' Missoni met the woman of his life on the banks of the
Thames.
Five years later, Missoni - an Italian from Dubrovnik on
the Dalmatian coast - would launch alongside her a ready-to-wear
clothing business near Varese that was to become known around
the world.
The exhibition will showcase a style of dressing that is
also a lifestyle: interwoven colors and zigzag, wavy, geometric,
floral and patchwork patterns.
In addition to 60 years of fashion, the exhibition will
showcase some masterpieces by modern artists that sparked
Missoni's imagination: from Sonia Delaunay to Lucio Fontana and
the futurist Gino Severini.
Fashion and Texile Museum director Celia Joicey noted that
it was the first large exhibition to explore the Missoni fashion
house, a mixture of fashion and art that sheds light on
relations between artists, designers and industry in Italy
during the post-WWII period.
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