Missoni

On Saturday evening, designers, stylists, and executives from around the fashion industry gathered at East Hampton’s Sunset Harbor to celebrate Missoni’s upcycled collection created exclusively for Nordstrom. For a brief moment, it felt…

The rejuvenation of Missoni is high on Filippo Grazioli’s agenda. Reducing the color palette, letting the house signature patterns breathe on neat silhouettes, and spinning the label in an affordable direction while keeping it “ageless and…

Another important aspect, she adds, is the relationship between the feminocentric philosophy of the brand and womenswear’s traditionally 20th-century relationship to the male gaze. “I remember when I was around 13 and my mother started…

Filippo Grazioli is approaching Missoni with a disciplined, restrained eye. His new menswear was in line with this tendency, which favors a relaxed look rooted in ease and spruced up with sporty accents referencing founder Ottavio Missoni’s…

Filippo Grazioli’s first outing for Missoni menswear revisited the label’s archival fundamentals through the streamlined lens of simplification and modernity. It’s the same approach he adopted for resort, and the collection he presented…

A deep dive into the archive is the unavoidable first step for every designer tasked with reviving a label’s luster. Filippo Grazioli, the newly appointed creative director at Missoni, thoroughly scanned the house’s past before establishing…

Thank goodness for boredom, because that's precisely how I ended up booking a weeklong trip to Italy. During one of my many late-night sessions aimlessly scrolling through the web, I stumbled upon a cheap flight to Rome that was…

One year ago the CEO of Missoni, Livio Proli, said the 69 year-old Italian knitwear brand needed to be “dusted off and made more relevant and cool.” Today, following a wide-ranging recruitment process during which headhunters are understood…

Simplify, reduce, streamline. Creative director Alberto Caliri is putting Missoni on a diet, believing that the label needs to be “lighter, cleaner, less layered, less loud.” He already made his point in the September show and kept the same…

Five days of womenswear presentations dissolved into more online presentations as Milan Fashion Week began to tail off Sunday, and the fashion crowd prepared to decamp for Paris.The excitement of live runway shows, the return of…