Alberto Caliri: “My new Missoni, light and precious”

It can take a lifetime to feel part of a family. Or a moment, as in the case of Alberto Caliri, the stylist who since last May became the creative director of Missoni. Right arm and pupil of Angela Missoni for over twenty years, Alberto has taken over the reins of the Sumirago brand and today he is ready to present his first collection in Milan. “What distinguishes me from the Missonis? Maybe I’m less exuberant, more intimate on certain aspects – confides the designer to Adnkronos -. I want to make people understand the preciousness of what you do. I am looking for lightness, freshness, I wanted to reread the heritage of Missoni, the tapestries, the patchwork that Ottavio made, which we previously approached in an orthodox way. Now they are deliberately feminine, precious, as if they were jewels “.