Special and limited edition of 899 hand-numbered copies! Every copy is a unique volume enriched with exclusive original fabrics provided by the Fashion House and applied by craftsmen.

The Great Italian Fashion:
Creativity, ingenuity and inventione; the excellence of Italian art, since the time of Raphael, Michelangelo and Leonardo, is renewed with the protagonists of a new and celebrated poetic of art. Italian designers and their Fashion Houses, which are workshops of new sensibilities, offer a vision of present and future by the reading of the past and the creation of new artistic languages. Their internationally celebrated Art renovates the experience of the Ancient Masters as the inimitable voice of the most inspired and winning Italian style.

Limited edition of 899 copies of which 100, out-of-commerce and numbered with Roman numerals, are destined for Missoni Family as the Editor's thanks for the collaboration granted for the realization of this Work.
The limited edition of 799 copies, hand-numbered with Arabic numerals and on the market, is so divided:
Scripta Maneant publisher from copy 1 to copy 699, Rizzoli New York from copy 700 to copy 799.

A celebration of the unmistakable Missoni style, whose innovative approach mixes bold color, pattern, and material with an extraordinary sense of balance and elegance.

This deluxe edition is a limited, numbered edition with five pieces of Missoni fabric stitched into the binding, a Missoni fabric inset on the cover, reproductions of magazine covers and a vintage 1977 pattern on special paper in Bodonian binding with a leather spine in a transparent plastic carrying case with handles.

It is the first fully comprehensive book about Missoni, created with full access to the archives and with the support of the Missoni family. Lavishly designed, 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. With previously unpublished material from both the family and the company archives, this volume is a look into the creative and artistic world of Missoni.