There she spent a day at Wembley Stadium watching that year’s Olympic athletics competition, spotting an Italian competitor ...

ROME (AP) — Rosita Missoni, the matriarch of the iconic Italian fashion house that made colorful zigzag-patterned knitwear high fashion ... when the Rinascente department store commissioned 500 ...

Rosita Missoni, who has died aged 93, was the matriarch of the Missoni fashion house, which she founded with her husband Ottavio in their basement in Lombardy in 1953, and which became famous around ...

Five years after the company’s founding, Missoni dresses could be purchased at La Rinascente, the upscale department store in Milan. Anna Piaggi, the editor of Vogue Italia, had Missoni designs ...

ROME (AP) — Rosita Missoni, the matriarch of the iconic Italian fashion house that made colorful zigzag-patterned knitwear ... when the Rinascente department store commissioned 500 colorful ...

Rosita Missoni, the matriarch of the iconic Italian fashion house that made colorful zigzag-patterned knitwear ... when the Rinascente department store commissioned 500 colorful vertically striped ...

Their zigzag-shaped eureka moment four years later ... and Bloomingdale’s gave the newcomer its own store-in-store. When Milan Fashion Week formally began a few years later, Missoni was amongst ...