(Aug. 9) – Ottavio Missoni is considered one of the most prestigious contemporary fashion designers. His creations have been exhibited in world’s most prestigious museums and became a permanent collection at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum, in New York. The traveling exhibition dedicated to him, “Ottavio Missoni. Il Genio del Colore” (Ottavio Missoni. The Genius of Color), arrives today in Dubrovnik, Croatia, after touching Maribor, Koper and Pula. The exhibition, on show until September 9th, is curated by the Unione Italiana, in collaboration with the Piran Coastal Galleries and the Art Gallery of Dubrovnik, the University of Trieste, Fondazione Ottavio and Rosita Missoni, the Italian Centre “Carlo Combi” and the Italian Community “Santorio Santorio”, both the from Koper. Sponsored by the Embassy of Italy in Zagreb, the City of Zagreb and the region of Istria, the exhibition will be inaugurated this evening at the Galerija Dulcic / Masle / Pulitika. It traces the history of Ottavio Missoni, illustrating the cultural roots in which the Italian manufacturing industry is rooted, with attention to the period lived by the Italian designer on Dalmatian coast, where he was born in 1921. (red)
