Venice: Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi -
The City of Venice Pays Tribute to Ottavio Missoni. In the Teatrino of the
Palazzo Grassi museum, on the Day of Remembrance for the Foibe Massacres, that
took place during and after WWII, the City of Venice paid tribute to OttavioMissoni, Dalmatian exile, Olympic hurdler, fashion entrepreneur and artist.
Above: Tai Missoni on his barge
Timoteo, anchored on the Island of San Giorgio in Venice, with Italian film
director Ermanno Olmi and his wife Rosita Missoni.
Tribute to Ottavio Missoni: Angela Missoni reads a text written for the
occasion by Claudio Magris and Luca Missoni also read a memory of his father written by
Enzo Betiza. The event was coordinated by Edward Pittalis, and
introduced by Alexander Cuk, president of the Venice Committee of the
Associazione Venezia Giulia e Dalmazia. The speakers included; Rosita Missoni, Giorgio Varisco, Paolo
Scandaletti, Mariuccia Casadio, Maria Luisa Frisa and Angela Vettese.
Giacomo
Missoni and Francesco Maccapani Missoni
Ottavio
Missoni fashion entrepeneur and artist at work.
Still taken from Rosanna
Turcinovic Giuricin’s video interview filmed in 2010, "The call of
Dalmatia according to Ottavio
Missoni".
Luca
and Angela Missoni
Maria
Luisa Frisa, course director of Fashion Design and Multimedia Arts at IUAV and
Angela Vettese, councillor for Cultural Activities and Development of Tourism
to the city of Venice.
Matteo Marzotto with Federica and
Giorgia Marangoni
Ottavio Missoni Olympic hurdler. Still
taken from Rosanna
Turcinovic Giuricin’s video interview filmed in 2010, "The call of
Dalmatia according to Ottavio
Missoni".
Christophe Gayral and Carla Alvera
The Dalmatian coastline. Still
taken from Rosanna
Turcinovic Giuricin’s video interview filmed in 2010, "The call of
Dalmatia according to Ottavio
Missoni".
Nori Starck, Matteo Corvino, Servane
and Giovanni Giol
Enzo di Martino and Attilio
Codognato
The backdrop: a slide of Missoni
jersey fabric appropriately showing Italy and the Dalmatian coasts.
Alberto Damian, Franca Goppion,
Manfredi Bellati and Giovanni Gregoletto
Valentina and Lorenzo Marangoni
Rosita Missoni received the Leone d’Oro
commemorating Ottavio Missoni
Harry’s Bar: a toast. Francesco Da
Mosto, Angela Missoni and Pietro Bortoluzzo
Harry’s Bar: a toast. Luca Missoni
Mariuccia Casadio and Beniamino
Marini
Harry’s Bar
HIGH FIVE
Still
taken from Rosanna
Turcinovic Giuricin’s video interview filmed in 2010, "The call of
Dalmatia according to Ottavio
Missoni".