Margherita Maccapani Missoni Amos (born February 22, 1983)"Margherita Missoni" Retrieved 11 June 2015 is an Italian fashion designer, model, socialite and heiress to her family's Missoni fashion house, which was founded by her grandparents Ottavio Missoni and Rosita Missoni Jelmini. Missoni currently lives in Montonate, a suburb of Mornago (Italy) close to the Missoni headquarters, where she is following her design career.

Biography Margherita Maccapani Missoni was born in ItalyDaily Telegraph "'Missoni' Accomplished" Retrieved October 19, 2007 and grew up in the Italian countryside, spending weekends in Milan.PaperMag.com "Out on the town with Margherita Missoni" Retrieved October 19, 2007 She studied philosophy at Columbia University.

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 Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. However, after she moved to New York, she struggled emotionally when her academic credits could not transfer to the United States educational system. Following this obstacle, Missoni chose to explore her first love, theatre.

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 Daily 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 Jean Genet's The Maids, 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.Premio America a Margherita Missoni - MF Fashion

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. The couple welcomed a son Otto Hermann Amos on September 6, 2013. Their second son Augusto was born on May 15, 2015. She separated from Amos in 2022. She's now in a relationship with Marcantonio Brandolini d'Adda.

See also Missoni Fashion

References

External links

Margherita Missoni on Style.com Margherita Missoni at Myspace Margherita Missoni at Twitter