Rosita Missoni takes to the Design Indaba stage.

Fashion & Jewellery Design/2015/2 min/Reel № 15.001

ByRosita Missoni

Trailer: Rosita Missoni on a life dedicated to fashion

Make. Change./Recorded 2015

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Rosita Missoni takes fashion & jewellery design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in Italy in 2015, the conversation is grounded in Rosita's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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Fashion and business icon Rosita Missoni talks about the love for her family as the driving force behind her success.

Rosita Missoni

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Rosita Missoni

Italy

The Missoni matriarch, who "cannot stay away from colour", zigzagged her way from knitwear to a home collection to hotel interior design.