Missoni | The Great Italian Fashion – Bookshop Edition

Creativity, ingenuity and invention

The excellence of Italian art,
since the time of Raphael, Michelangelo and Leonardo, is renewed with the protagonists of a new and celebrated poetics of art. Italian designers and their Fashion Houses, which are workshops of new sensibilities, offer a vision of present and future by the reading of the past and the creation of new artistic languages. Their internationally celebrated Art renovates the experience of the Ancient Masters as the inimitable voice of the most inspired and winning Italian style.

Description of the volume

• Size 22,5 x 24 cm
• Pages 331
• Images 280
• ISBN 978-88-95847-29-0
• Language Italiano/Inglese

Authors

Author and Project Coordinator
Massimiliano Capella

Editorial Coordination
Luca Missoni

Introductions
Mario Boselli, Luca Missoni, Fulvio Scaparro

Scientific Committee
Rosita Missoni, Angela Missoni, Luca Missoni, Massimiliano
Capella, Bettina Fuortes, Federico Ferrari

Index

• 100 Years of Ottavio Missoni
• A life in colour: Ottavio Missoni by Fulvio Scaparro
• Editor’s note
• Introduction by Mario Boselli
• Fashion and Art by Luca Missoni
• Author’s note by Massimiliano Capella
• On Beauty and Harmony. The Origins of a Fashion Family
• International Triumph. From the Runway Scandal of 1967 to the
• Neiman Marcus Fashion Award in 1973
• Missoni Home. From the lines of fashion to the style of furniture and décor
• The studies of Ottavio Missoni. The harmony ofsign, the poetics of color
• Fashion and the Performing Arts. The Missonisin the World of Theatre,
• Opera, and Cinema
• An Artful Style. Stripes, Zigzags, and Abstract Creations
• Historical coversselections
• Bibliography
• Photo credits

Volume Datasheet

Missoni | The Great Italian Fashion – Bookshop Edition