Background
Margherita Missoni was born in Italy and grew up in the Italian countryside, spending weekends in Milan.
Margherita Missoni was born in Italy and grew up in the Italian countryside, spending weekends in Milan.
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 Theater Institute.
Missoni currently lives in Montonate (Italy) close to the Missoni headquarters, where she is following her design career. 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.
Their son Otto Hermann Amos was born on September 6, 2013.
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".
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.
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.