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Ottavio Missoni 11 February — 9 May was a Dalmatian Italian businessman, founder of the Italian fashion label Missoni and an Olympic hurdler who competed in the Summer Olympics. Ottavio Missoni was born in Dubrovnik, Croatia , on the Dalmatian coast.

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His mother, Teresa de' Vidovich di Capocesto e Rogoznica , was a Dalmatian Countess while his father, Vittorio Missoni, was a Friulian sea captain who moved to Dalmatia while it was under Austrian rule. He was educated in Zadar , Trieste , and Milan. Missoni joined the Italian National Track Team in at age He won the individual national championship four times.

Missoni served as an infantryman during World War II. In , he fought in the Battle of El Alamein , where he was captured by the Desert Rats and served out the remainder of the War in an English prisoner-of-war camp. Their first son, Vittorio , was born on 25 April Luca, their second son, was born on 4 July Their only daughter, Angela was born in After the war, Ottavio and his team-mate Giorgio Oberweger launched an activewear business in Trieste making wool tracksuits , which they called Venjulia suits.

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In , following his marriage to Rosita whose family ran a shawl-making business , the Missonis set up Maglificio Jolly, a machine-knitwear workshop in Gallarate. They held their first catwalk show in , and the following year, presented a show at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. This show proved controversial due to the unplanned transparency of the models' clothing under the lights, revealing a lack of underwear and leading to comparisons to the Crazy Horse cabaret.

In , Missoni opened their first in-store boutique at Bloomingdale's in New York, [ 5 ] and their first directly-owned boutique in Milan in Ottavio was the colourist and pattern designer whose watercolour paintings and gouaches formed the basis of Missoni textiles, whilst his wife developed the cuts and shapes of their garments.