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. In the subsequent decades, Missoni became a household name, and the couple were often described as “colour geniuses”; their use of kaleidoscopic prints and the famous zig-zag motif became synonymous with the joys of the Italian
