Italian luxury knitwear Missoni search dead at 92

  Italian knitwear impresario Ottavio "Tai" Missoni, an innovator whose unique zigzag colorful dresses have become a global fashion empire, died on Thursday at his home at 92, his family said.
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Missoni co-founder of fashion brand have in 1953 with his wife Rosita Jelmini and her designs have graced the rich and famous by Jackie Kennedy, the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton.

He had been admitted to hospital with heart problems and died peacefully last week of his family at his villa in Sumirago in northern Italy, where he was surrounded, and the company has been established for decades.

"The rainbow that jumped from his creations gave the impression of a happy man who has managed to make its way to be accessible to a global audience," said Mayor Giuliano Pisapia Milan.

"The jumpers and dresses he created gave him eternity," he said, adding that Missoni was "done great brand made in Italy."

The family said there will be a Sunday lie in state in the court of his textile factory in Sumirago and burial will be held on Monday.

Missoni was in the former Yugoslavia in today's Dubrovnik 11 Born February 1921, and after moving to Italy, he began a career in athletics - a sport he continued to old age.

And he was a national champion before the Second World War took part in the Olympic Games in London 1948.

During the war he fought in the Battle of El Alamein, and was held as a prisoner of war.

Olympic Games, he met his future wife, whose family owned a textile company in northern Italy.

The Missoni brand has quickly gained a reputation for testing new boundaries in 1960 and was expelled from the Pitti in Florence during his fashion shows models wearing no bra on the podium.

Missoni was a jovial selfless man, a reporter said that the geometric patterns on their clothes "were so, because we can machines do the straight lines."

He also wrote the reasons for the places in the books he used to conceive.

But the company has maintained a reputation for innovation in recent years and was the first to delve into the mass market through a successful partnership with the goal of the U.S. mega-store chain.

He has also completed other large chain Italian fashion in the development of branded hotels in cities such as Edinburgh and Kuwait.

The company, which exports about 80 percent of production, achieved sales of 150 million euros (197 million dollars) in 2011.
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Missoni has continued to work with the company until his death, although he handed over the responsibility for the administration, both his son and daughter.

He suffered the tragedy earlier this year when a plane with his eldest son, Victor, and five others during a flight from the resort to the Venezuelan islands of Los Roques are gone.

The 58-year-old man is now feared dead and those who are the best of Italian media that his father did not know even then, and refused, were summoned to speak with the family.