Top 35 Margherita Missoni Quotes

I grew up in the same place as my mother, seeing the same trees my mother saw when she was at work; the flowers I picked were the flowers that my grandma planted. We have different styles; I wouldn’t make the same clothes that my mum made, or my grandma, but we have the same taste.

I bought a place in Milan, but Missoni headquarters are out in the country, in Sumirago. My whole family eats out of the same vegetable garden; my mother raises chickens. I love the city, but if you’re always bombarded with stimulation, you get numb to it. I need to get bored to create.

Growing up, I saw the world as an inspiring place full of interesting people.

I’ve always tried to control everything and every aspect of my life, and this is maybe the biggest lesson I’ve learnt with motherhood – you just can’t control everything, and I’m much more relaxed now about unexpected changes and things that happen.

On my skin for the winter, I like Hydracid C20 cream by SVR.

I’m not keen on the Mini Me trend. In my opinion, kids’ clothes should be kids’ clothes.

I go to bed early, and normally before I do, I have a tea – it’s a special tea that my doula gave me, and it takes about 25 minutes to make!

Fashion is a real passion in my family. I never even realised it was something glamorous until much later. For me, it was my family’s job.

We live in the countryside, 15 minutes from the closest town, so I would never have time to drive and go somewhere. So I have a personal trainer come to my house, normally three times a week, and we do circuit training depending on what I need.

There may be people who try to imitate art when they get dressed and people who just get dressed to cover themselves up, but I guess that both send out messages and communicate their ideas and feelings through their looks.

Sometimes I have ice cream for lunch. Gelateria Sempione in Milan is the best in the world, hands down. The chocolate sorbetto is amazing.

When I became a mum myself, I really struggled to find great kids’ clothes. Everything was either gorgeous but impossible to actually get open to change a nappy and expensive or poor quality.

It’s the story of my life; I spend my life reorganising my closet. My husband thinks I’m crazy, and I change the rules every six months.

I have a lot of Missoni tablecloths, but for breakfast, we use placemats – we call them ‘American-style.’ I have some in crazy patterns from the Swedish brand Svenskt Tenn. And I like plates from Grottaglie in Puglia, stained in wild colors.

Since I was a child, everyone would ask me what I wanted to do when I grew up. Was I going to be a designer? It’s as if there was a path drawn for me, and I could see, from where I was standing, exactly where it ended.

Americans have much less holiday, so for them, four or five days away is like a mini vacation, but for us, it’s just a long weekend. In Europe, one takes time off more casually.

My mother persuaded me not to pluck my eyebrows when I was a teenager – right now I’m so grateful I never did! She also taught me to pour 2 kg. of salt in my bath whenever I feel swollen and tired – and to end it with a cold shower. It does wonders.

I definitely inherited a lot of from both my grandmothers and from my mother. I wear a lot of pieces that used to belong to other people.

I’m the only one in my family who doesn’t cook, but I can do a Swiss dish called frittatensuppe. You make a thin omelet from eggs, flour and parsley, then roll and cut it in the shape of tagliatelle and add broth. It’s a tradition we adopted.

I like the brand BioNike for shower gel, creams, deodorant, and hair products. I also love RestivOil – it’s a yellowy, orange shampoo that I’ve used forever because it’s the gentlest on the scalp.

When I was growing up, my family was serious about manners. I always wanted to put my elbow on the table to prop my head up. I didn’t understand how other people looked awake. My head felt so heavy after the whole day.

I buy a lot of fashion, and I wear many different brands. Even though I’m not so conceptual in my style, I probably buy the most from Junya Watanabe. It’s always so spot on and of-the-moment although it’s also so sophisticated and conceptual. I also love Marco de Vincenzo, Azzedine Alaia, and Yohji Yamamoto.

I love dressing for different occasions and having dress codes. For me, it’s such a fun thing to have a reason to think about dressing within restraints or codes or rules, so it’s something I have fun with.

I’m not a big sleeper. It just feels like wasting time. If I wake up, and it’s after 5 A.M., I stay up.

I lived in New York for five years; I’ve lived in Barcelona, Rome, and Paris at different times. When I was 18, I was dying to live in a city.

My phone is all ping-ping, eBay alerts.

Bio-Oil is the best scar and stretchmark prevention/remedy. I swear by the entire range of Vea Oleo – their lip balm is great. I use the one in tubes for my son Otto’s winter skin dryness.

I studied philosophy at Columbia, then dropped out to do drama at the Lee Strasberg Institute.

Every little detail of my life is, and has always been, surrounded by fashion – from the cup I drink my coffee from in the morning to my constant travels – fashion always pops up somewhere and somehow.

I’m happy living in the countryside. We are 30 minutes away from Milan, so I can drive in for dinner and drive out. It’s not a question of living in the country or in the city, it’s really a question of living in a tight, close-knit clan that makes the difference.

I think that style, taste, and choices in general are forged by everything that surrounds you – everything you see, taste, touch, smell and hear. So of course, my family has influenced me as a person and in my own style, but so have all the experiences that I went through as an individual.

Growing up in a very big family, working together and playing together, that is something that has been part of my life since ever I was born. It has advantages and disadvantages. It’s like an older style of living where everyone works in the family business.

Whatever you thought you would wear when you got pregnant, you won’t be wearing that.

I grew up in the countryside with the factory here, my house 200 metres away, my grandma’s house 50 metres away, in a kind of old-style Italian society where everyone works for the family business, everyone lives nearby, and the people you spend your time with are your family.

A simple thing that we do is hot and cold showers for circulation. And using aloe vera on your face, but I guess that’s not very Italian because we don’t naturally have it, I think.