Designer Talks – Missoni Spring 2011: Angela Missoni at Milan Fashion Week MFW | FashionTV – FTV

Milan Fashion Week Spring 2011 on FTV.com Missoni Designer Talk Angela Missoni and her daughter Margheriita who is now working with her mother give us a rundown for the inspiration & work of the S 11 collection Top Hot Sexy Models – Styled by – Music — Bang Bang Bang by MARK RONSON & THE BUSINESS INTL Missoni represents a unique style in ready-to-wear knit classics. What started off as a tiny workshop belonging to a newly-wed couple has become the leading trend-setter for knitwear in the world. Rosita Jelmini was born in 1932 near Varese, the daughter of a mill owner, and studied languages. She was sent to London to improve her English. Ottavio (known to everybody as Tai) was born in 1921 in Dalmatia and brought up in Trieste. In the late 1940s he was producing track suits with a friend to be worn by the Italian national team at the 1948 Olympic Games in London. Rosita who had gone to watch the games saw Tai run as a finalist in the 400 meters obstacle course and decided that he would become her husband. Five years later they were married and had set up a small workshop in order to make a living. They soon moved on to knitwear from track suits. Their first big break came in 1964 when they met designer Emmanuelle Kahn and decided to make a knitwear collection together which they showed in Milan two years later; then in 1967 came their second break, when they presented their collection at Palazzo Pitti. They became world-famous, or, rather, infamous, because Rosita, making …