COLOUR VICE

Innate, deeply-rooted, loved, invented, contrasted, underlined, shaded rhythmical, sophisticated, private, Missoni Colour is both vice end applied art especially when... ôStripedö.
Running up and down its chromatic graphic scale, one has the feeling of meeting up with Sonia Deleunay, Gerrit Rietveld, the Bauhaus Artists and Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, Jim Dine, Frank Stella, Daniel Buren.
AndàOttavio Missoni.  Art, moment by moment is defined as isometric,  simultaneous, dynamic, kinetic,  pop...
New Missoni Striped-coloured ômanifestoö foresees a vertical silhouette, horizontal stripes and the Installation of a thick toile underskirt that structures line and emphasizes deconstructed volumes.
Intervention of radical yams pilots Colour. Surfaces are textured and tactile as a grainy painted wall, with the full tones of Burano house facades accented by an acrylic palette. A reassuring Language made of many handicraft and artistic techniques counters the paradox of modern definitions. Some knit notes:
Colour blocks and vertical geometric dresses, in rustic linen.
Stripes and ôribbon". Tucked gauffrè and wide open stripes.
Dropped ribs. Artistic workmanship "accidentsö. Bands.
Straw-lace design, sampler of dentelle-stitches. Basket techniques. Viscose and linen.
Stocking stich. Oversize net. Nostalgia for primary knitting, hand-made. Also applied to bathing suits.
ôPlacedö stripes. Subtle contrast of fabric pieces.
T-shirt and flame-stitch. Basic pieces, ôflame-stichö bands.
Double stripes and suede with olographic print. Reversible lines, drooping, with different outside-inside effects.
Iridescent Lamè. Mixed techniques. Underskirts of rustling taffetas.

Reference "Points. The suppleness, the generosity of ôplasticö effects, cowl neck, back-less, ôrobeö beach-city, cape. Naturally oversized ôloose" pullovers.
Athletic look of tank tops and turn of the century, masculine bathing suits.
Basics with new proportions, shortened trousers.
The sophisticated nonchalance of evening renders daytime textures even more precious. And shades get more languorous: the vice of Colours awaits dawnà
Anna Piaggi