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Rosita Missoni stars in "Illuminate"
The Sunday, March 29, episode of the Rai 3 program "Illuminate" was dedicated to Rosita Jelmini, the former wife of Ottavio Missoni, the celebrated fashion designer and Dalmatian exile. Host Greta Ferro took an intimate and symbolic journey to discover Rosita Missoni, recognized as a tireless "searcher for beauty" and color. Clothes, home, flowers, family, work: she sought beauty in everything and communicated it in an original and unique way, through colors, stripes, zigzags, and never-before-seen combinations, continuing the work of "Tai" Missoni, who drew inspiration for his designs from the waves of the Adriatic Sea. The episode can be rewatched...
Missoni: stylist, athlete and Dalmatian exile
Athlete, stylist, artist. Ottavio Missoni, known as Tai, was also Mayor of the Free Municipality of Zara in Exile. An exile, but not a revanchist, rather a peacemaker, he wanted the story to be known and remembered as a warning for new generations. For the inhabitants of Sumirago (VA) the label founded by Missoni is a true symbol, a company that employs 250 people in a town of just over 6000 inhabitants, also financing various sports activities. The sixtieth Podcast of Ritratti, the series created by the online editorial team of the newspaper La Verità, is dedicated to him and his story and can be listened to at this...
The Missoni Trophy at the International Meeting “Sport Solidarity”
The thirty-fourth edition of the International Meeting “Sport Solidarietà”, always organized by the Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Nuova Atletica dal Friuli of Udine, is scheduled for July 14, 2023 at the “G. Teghil” Stadium in Lignano Sabbiadoro (UD). The event is among the most important sporting events in Athletics and is included in the calendar of the world circuit of the World Federation (World Athletics) and the European Federation (EAA), considered one of the major sporting events taking place in Italy and Friuli Venezia Giulia. TECHNICAL LEVEL OF EXCELLENCE The international level is guaranteed. Athletes from all over the world, including...
Ottavio Missoni celebrated in Milan
The city of Milan celebrated Ottavio Missoni, the founder of the Italian fashion house, on March 30, 2022 The founder of the Italian fashion house Missoni was remembered on March 30, 2022 by the city of Milan. Exactly in the showroom located in Via Solferino 9. The idea was born from the Anvgd-National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmazia to thank the great Ottavio Missoni for everything he did both for the city of fashion, Milan, and for the Lombardy region itself. The event, in fact, was organized as a thank you to all those people who contributed to the growth of the city of Milan, both in the social sphere...
A book celebrates Missoni on the centenary of its birth
Friday in Bologna the presentation of a celebratory edition of the volume "Missoni. La grande moda italiana" Fashion is art, in its highest and most celebrated forms. This is the thought that lives in the edition "Missoni - La grande moda italiana", dedicated to Ottavio Missoni on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of his birth, which fell last February. An anniversary full of tributes, homages from the media all over the world, to underline the imprint that the creative who left Ragusa in Dalmatia, where he was born in 1921, and passed away in 2013, left on costume. Because the Missonis - always in the plural: where there was Ottavio (Tai, for friends) there was also his wife Rosita -...
Ottavio Missoni. The heart beyond the obstacle
The 100th birthday of Ottavio Missoni, an Italian from Dalmatia, born in Ragusa and raised in Zara, an athlete by vocation, capable of throwing his heart over the obstacle. 100 years lived with style. On the track, in his first life as an athlete, and in fashion, in the second life that will make him known to the world. Balilla of Italian athletics as he was defined by the columnist of Lo Sport Fascista, the most prestigious sports magazine of the time, Ottavio Missoni was born in Ragusa, a city in Dalmatia, on February 11, 1921, but grew up in Zara where the family moved when the child was still very young. Son of a sea captain and a noblewoman, he approached sports while...
The great Julian-Dalmatian champions
The National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia presents SO FAR SO CLOSE ADALBERTO SCEMMA TELLS THE STORIES OF THE GREAT GIULIAN DALMATIAN CHAMPIONS They are all great champions, sports people, accustomed to hard work, sacrifice and success. They all come from an enchanted strip of land, kissed by the sun and the sea, but mortified by history, by unfortunate pacts and by the painful experience of exile. All of them have honored the roots of their land, all of them, so far away and yet ideally always so close to their roots, have honored sport in its maximum expression. These are their...
Ottavio Missoni in a special issue of “Il Dalmata”
This special issue of “Il Dalmata” is entirely dedicated to Ottavio Missoni (Ragusa di Dalmazia, 11 February 1921 - Sumirago, 9 May 2013), our beloved Mayor for twenty years, a world-famous stylist, Cavaliere del Lavoro and Commendatore della Repubblica, a champion of athletics, a finalist in the 400-metre hurdles at the 1948 London Olympics, an intelligent entrepreneur and prestigious artist, a man of spirit full of charm and great humanity, who has always remained spiritually among us. One hundred years after his birth, we remember him together with his family in these pages that bring to life some of the most beautiful and significant moments in our history of...
