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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Scarlett Conlon

Italian fashion designer and ‘colour genius’ Rosita Missoni dies aged 93

Rosita Missoni raises both hands to wave
Rosita Missoni at her brand’s show during Milan fashion week in September 2017. Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/Reuters

Rosita Missoni, the esteemed Italian fashion designer who co-founded the eponymous knitwear brand, has died aged 93.

Internationally admired for her colourful fashion house, which she established with her husband, Ottavio, in 1953, Missoni came to be regarded as fashion royalty for being one of a group of designers who brought the Italian ready-to-wear industry to a global market in the 1950s and 60s.

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