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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.
Margherita Missoni
Simple
Face
Think
Cold
Guess
Circulation
Simple Thing
Hot
Because
Vera
Italian
Very
Your
Naturally
Showers
Using
Thing
I live for any excuse to 'dress for the occasion.'
Margherita Missoni
Live
Dress
Excuse
Occasion
Any
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.
Margherita Missoni
Work
Mother
Made
Clothes
Trees
Saw
Seeing
Picked
She
Make
Styles
Were
Up
Taste
Same
Different
Grew
Place
Grandma
Planted
Different Styles
Mum
Flowers
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.
Margherita Missoni
Day
Family
People
Manners
Other
Table
Prop
About
Put
Head
Looked
Felt
Understand
Always
How
Up
Heavy
Wanted
After
Elbow
Whole
Awake
Serious
Growing
Growing Up
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.
Margherita Missoni
Art
People
Communicate
Try
Feelings
Imitate
Guess
Out
Dressed
Both
Through
Ideas
Messages
Looks
Cover
Up
Get
Send
May
Just
Themselves
Who
My grandmother Rosita, my mother Angela and I have probably got different styles but we have very similar tastes. For example, I don't find it hard to use colours or wear knits, since it's something that comes to me naturally.
Margherita Missoni
Me
Mother
Example
Find
Wear
Angela
Similar
Something
Colours
Since
For Example
Styles
Got
Very
Tastes
Different
Grandmother
Use
Hard
Naturally
Different Styles
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.
Margherita Missoni
Life
Fashion
Morning
Coffee
My Life
Somewhere
Every
Detail
Constant
Somehow
Drink
Always
Been
Cup
Surrounded
Up
Little
Pops
Travels
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.
Margherita Missoni
Me
Tired
Grateful
Mother
Pour
Salt
Cold
Bath
Teenager
Eyebrows
Pluck
Never
Feel
Also
She
Does
End
Did
Wonders
Taught
Whenever
Persuaded
Shower
Now
Swollen
Right
I saw a photo of a Christian Lacroix couture dress when I was in my teens and decided right then that that's how I wanted to look on my wedding day. In my mind, that's what angels looked like.
Margherita Missoni
Day
Mind
Christian
Teens
Saw
Photo
Dress
Angels
Wedding
Like
Look
Looked
How
Couture
Wanted
Decided
Then
Right
At the beginning, when you don't look so pregnant, I think it's all about dressing boyish, with jackets and loose layers.
Margherita Missoni
You
Beginning
Think
Dressing
About
Layers
Look
Loose
Boyish
Jackets
Pregnant
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.
Margherita Missoni
Best
Great
Winter
Son
Skin
Range
Scar
Entire
Balm
Lip
Tubes
Swear
Use
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.
Margherita Missoni
Love
Hair
Gel
Shampoo
Like
Also
Because
Brand
Forever
Deodorant
Orange
Used
Products
Shower
On my skin for the winter, I like Hydracid C20 cream by SVR.
Margherita Missoni
Winter
Skin
Like
Cream
Being your own woman, not cookie cutter - that is the greatest luxury!
Maria Cornejo
Woman
Luxury
Own
Greatest
Being
Your
Cookie
I'm not an intimate person, really.
Maria Cornejo
Intimate
Person
Really
Normally I sleep in until 7, and most days, I go right into the office. On Tuesdays, though, I stay home and do work. I need a day when I'm not in meeting after meeting. You need time to try to get into your head again and see what's next.
Maria Cornejo
Work
Time
Day
Home
You
Try
Meeting
Though
Stay
See
Head
Days
Most
Until
Go
Normally
Office
Get
After
Again
Next
Your
Right
Need
Sleep
The fashion business has to change. There's too much waste.
Maria Cornejo
Fashion
Business
Change
Too Much
Too
Much
Waste
If you feel good about yourself, even putting a little bit of makeup - I don't usually wear makeup, but you know, someone said to me, 'Why don't you spend that extra five minutes to make yourself feel good?' And it's just a bit of self-care so you can go out and face the world, and I think we need that right now.
Maria Cornejo
Good
Me
You
Feel Good
Yourself
World
Face
Think
Extra
Spend
Bit
Out
Wear
Minutes
About
Someone
Putting
Feel
Know
Make
Makeup
Said
Go
Five
Just
Little
Little Bit
Even
Now
Why
Right
Need
My shrink said to me once when I used to get really overwhelmed and super depressed because I was really run down between kids and the company and there was just so much going on - she said, 'You know, you have to look after you in order for you to look after everybody else.'
Maria Cornejo
Me
You
Down
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Once
Kids
Run
Super
Between
Know
Look
She
Because
Said
Overwhelmed
Get
Going
Just
Order
After
Depressed
Much
Really
Used
Company
Shrink
Before I started my company in 1998, I worked for big companies traveling a lot and saw firsthand how much waste there was. I was flying across the world in first class to places like Italy or Hong Kong, where I was staying in 5-star hotels, only to nickel and dime someone over a sweater price.
Maria Cornejo
Class
World
First
Big
Before
Hong Kong
Saw
Flying
Dime
Staying
Someone
Only
Price
Hotels
Over
First Class
Like
Kong
Firsthand
How
How Much
Big Companies
Italy
Lot
Where
Places
Sweater
Worked
Much
Across
Companies
Company
Traveling
Waste
Nickel
Started
Because America doesn't have a strong textile industry anymore, we have to bring things like fabrics, zippers, and color tape into the U.S., and having so many elements involved in production adds to the amount of waste. You might have some things coming from Italy, a button coming from China, or lining coming from Korea; it's just endless.
Maria Cornejo
You
Strong
Adds
Fabrics
Some
Some Things
Having
Color
Like
Involved
Industry
Because
Korea
Coming
Tape
Italy
Lining
Textile
America
Endless
Just
Anymore
China
Might
Production
Many
Elements
Waste
Amount
Things
Button
Bring
The idea was to have something wearable that fit with my reality, which was being a mom with two young kids and not always wanting to wear jeans. I still wanted to wear interesting clothes, and the options out there I found were either very expensive or very cheap. There was a big gap in the middle.
Maria Cornejo
Mom
Reality
Big
Young
Clothes
Kids
Out
Wear
Something
Cheap
Idea
Always
Still
Were
Fit
Very
Options
Expensive
Middle
Being
Wanted
Wanting
Either
Which
Young Kids
Interesting
Jeans
Gap
Found
Two
My parents came from very humble families. My grandfather had a construction business coming from farmland, and my grandmother could never read or write. We were very spoiled. We had a nice house - and then, all of a sudden, we had nothing.
Maria Cornejo
Business
Construction
Humble
Parents
Nothing
Nice
Could
Write
Never
Had
Spoiled
House
Read
Coming
Came
Were
Very
Families
Grandfather
Then
Grandmother
Farmland
Sudden
My parents, they were both Socialists; they were young - 30, 31. They were both successful career people. They had been teachers, and my dad spoke English.
Maria Cornejo
People
Parents
Young
Both
Had
Spoke
Were
Been
Successful
Teachers
English
Dad
Socialists
Career
My art teacher was really encouraging me, because he really liked that I could draw. I felt very torn. At that time, I had to pick one, and I felt much more confident in the arts than I did in chemistry. My big thing was that I actually wanted to be like Jacques Cousteau.
Maria Cornejo
Teacher
Art
Time
Me
Big
Chemistry
Draw
Torn
More
Could
Had
Pick
He
Like
Liked
Because
Felt
Encouraging
Very
Than
Did
Jacques
Confident
Arts
Big Thing
Wanted
Much
Really
Actually
Thing
When I was in high school in England, I wasn't sure that you could have a career in fashion. In those days, there were very few fashion magazines. I didn't realize there was a school where you could go and learn how to make clothes and design. I thought you just had to be discovered somewhere, like a film.
Maria Cornejo
Fashion
You
School
Thought
Somewhere
Few
Clothes
Design
Those
High
Magazines
High School
Could
Had
Days
Like
Make
Learn
Sure
How
Go
Were
Discovered
Very
Just
Where
Realize
England
Film
Career
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