Friday, February 11, 2011

Greetings Ottavio Missoni

They call all Tai since childhood, this strange nickname (you never know from where it started) if it is not taken again. It will be that, despite the 90 years that makes today February 11th, and celebrated with an autobiography, A Life on the edge of Lana (Rizzoli, 18 €), it still seems a little boy.

Will that life has always been angry with joy. As for the old age then his personal philosophy: "Ageing will also be a bad disease, but given the alternative, it is not so bad." Style Trend recalling the celebrated 10th curiosity about the life of her husband, fashion designer, athlete, man.

1. He was born in Dubrovnik in 1921, but not the beautiful city of Sicily, but in that today in Croatia, better known as Dubrovnik. 2. For seven years he moved to Zadar, where he spent most of his childhood. The city named him "mayor in exile." 3. It's been a champion of athletics: in 1935 he competed with the national team and in his career he has won eight national titles between 400 plans and obstacles.

4. He fought at El Alamein and after being caught he spent four years in a prison camp in Egypt. 5. He met his wife Rosita in London, she was studying in a boarding school run by nuns, "You said that when he saw me and swore that he would marry me or anyone else. He was 16 and I 27, when he heard there was bad.

" 6. The first workshop of the knitting opened in Trieste with a friend athlete like him, the discus thrower George Oberwerger. But things began to work only when he began working with the company of his wife's family, who had a factory in shawls and embroidered fabrics. 7. The success came in the eighties, when his clothes appeared on the front covers of fashion magazines.

And with the consecration of "cultural": '83 designed the costumes for the first La Scala, Lucia di Lammermoor. 8. He never followed the fashion, but has always preferred to wear what they liked, "To go to the Quirinale (when he was awarded the title of Cavaliere del Lavoro ed) I had to wear a suit and tie.

But I did not have them. Never had. We do not do, so I went to Armani and I bought them. " 9. He loves the cards and his young playmate was Gianni Brera "We did a couple of aces and fucks he claimed that I'm wrong to drop the loads. There was a time that he got angry and ended up with insults.

" 10. His secret? Never take it seriously. His motto in fact speaks volumes about what he thinks of his work: "To dress is not bad follow fashion, but it helps."

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