Missoni : The great Italian fashion.

This is the first fully comprehensive book about Missoni, created with full access to the archives and with the support of the Missoni family. It features reproductions of Missoni patterns printed on special material and stitched into the binding between signatures along with other special features. This volume was conceived as a design object, in which images, texts, original fabrics, drawings, color palettes, and fashion patterns speak to one another. Missoni celebrates an elegance that has become an artistic expression as well as something of a cultural and fashion revolution since the early 1950s, when Rosita and Ottavio Missoni began their creative journey into fashion and art, with a talent for experimentation that never betrayed the spirit of their origins in the decades to come. Divided into thematic sections, each is introduced by an essay including quotes by the Missonis themselves, highlighting the artistic decisions that contributed to the success and recognizability of their fashion house.

Introduction / Mario Boselli --Fashion and art / Luca Missoni --
Author's note / Massimiliano Capella --
On beauty and harmony: the origins of the fashion family --
International triumph: from the runaway scandal of 1967 to the Neiman Marcus fashion award in 1973 --
Missoni home: from the lines of fashion to the style of furniture and decor --
The studies of Ottavio Missoni: the harmony of signature, the poetics of color --
Fashion and performing arts: the Missonis in the world of theatre, opera, and cinema --
An artful style: stripes, zigzags, and abstract creations --
Historical covers selection/ highlights.