Margherita Maccapani Missoni Amos (born February 22, 1983) is an Italian fashion designer, model, socialite and heiress to her family's

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fashion house, which was founded by her grandparents

Ottavio Missoni Ottavio "Tai" Missoni (11 February 1921 – 9 May 2013) was the founder of the Italian fashion label Missoni and an Olympic hurdler who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics. Along with his wife Rosita, he was part of the group of designers who l ...

and Rosita Missoni Jelmini. Missoni currently lives in Montonate, a suburb of

Mornago Mornago is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Varese, in the Italy, Italian region of Lombardy. It is about 45 km northwest of Milan and about 10 km southwest of Varese. It has a population of 5011 inhabitants and an area of 1 ...

(Italy) close to the

headquarters, where she is following her design career.

Biography

Margherita Maccapani Missoni was born in

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''Daily Telegraph'
"'Missoni' Accomplished"
Retrieved October 19, 2007 and grew up in the Italian countryside, spending weekends in

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.PaperMag.co
"Out on the town with Margherita Missoni"
Retrieved October 19, 2007 She studied

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Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. Margherita has studied philosophy both at the Università Statale di Milano and at the Columbia University in New York where, following that period, she also attended the Stella Adler acting school and the

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Theater Institute. However, after she moved to New York, she struggled emotionally when her academic credits could not transfer to the

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educational system. Following this obstacle, Missoni chose to explore her first love,

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

Career

Before she was featured in Missoni campaigns, she was a company ambassador, a duty entailing promotion at fashion related events. In her own words, Missoni described becoming the face of a Missoni campaign as "a natural evolution".Fashion Week Dail
A moment with Margherita Missoni
Retrieved October 19, 2007 At the age of 20, she was already considered by ''Harper's & Queen'' magazine as one of the world's 100 most beautiful women. In 2006, she appeared in

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’s ''

The Maids ''The Maids'' (french: Les Bonnes, links=no) is a 1947 play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. It was first performed at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris in a production that opened on 17 April 1947, which Louis Jouvet directed. The pla ...

'', based on a true story of two maids who kill their mistress.Sara Zucker
"You Wish You Were Them, But You’re Not"
, SocialiteLife.com, May 20, 2006, Retrieved October 3, 2013 Since the spring of 2009, Margherita started getting involved with the brand on a different level, becoming part of the design team, following the footsteps of her mother Angela, the Maison's Creative Director. She received the ''America Award'' of the Italy-USA Foundation in 2014 for having helped the relationships between Italy and the USA. In 2015, she launched her own independent children's line of clothes, followed by a few collaborations with other brands. In October 2018, she became creative director of the M Missoni brand.

Personal life

She says her relationship with her family is close, particularly her connection with her sister and her mother. On June 23, 2012, she married the race car driver, Eugenio Amos (b. 1985) in Brunello, Italy. Their son Otto Hermann Amos was born on September 6, 2013.

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External links

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on Style.com
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at Myspace
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Missoni, Margherita 1983 births Italian female models Italian expatriates in the United States Italian socialites Living people Fashion designers from Milan Italian women fashion designers People from the Province of Varese Models from Milan Alumni of the European Schools Columbia University alumni

Biography

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