Rosita Missoni, co-founder of Italian knitwear brand Missoni, dies at 93. .

Rosita founded the brand with her husband Ottavio in 1953. Their big break came in 1958, when the Milanese department store ordered hundreds of striped dresses emblazoned with the Missoni logo.. The brand's first show took place in 1966.

The fashion house became world famous after models were asked to remove their white bras at one of the shows because they were visible under their blouses..

Rosita's husband died in 2013 at the age of 92. The couple's daughter, Angela, took over the fashion house in the late 1990s, although Rosita continued to work on the brand's home line, Missoni Home..