angela missoni is leaving the role of creative director after 24 years at the missoni fashion house founded by her parents ottavio and rositamissoni 62 announced the move in an interview with business of fashion published on tuesday indicating that the naming of a new ceo during the pandemic and the role of a private investment fund in backing the fashion house had given her the confidence to make the movedesign director alberto caliri who has worked alongside missoni for 15 years will take over the creative role for an interim his first collection will be presented in september for spring 2022my parents invented a new language in fashion missoni told the publication and i think over the past 25 years ive been able to extend the lexicon of this languagemissoni will stay on as president of the familyrun fashion house while other family members retain roles in the company including her mother who is in charge of the missoni home collectionthe missoni family maintains majority control of the house after selling a 412stake to the italian investment fund fsi in 2018other recent changes include suspending the secondary line m missoni in march it was being run by angela missonis daughter margherita maccapani missoni who stepped aside while its future is being decidedceo livio proli told womens wear daily that the family backs his fiveyear plan to restructure the company after the impact of covid19 missoni reported a net loss in 2020 with a 33 decline in revenues from 110 million euros 134 million in 2019angela is showing sensibility and courage as well as foresight with this decision which will contribute to kickstart the third cycle of the company with a new injection of energy and creative strength proli said she will accompany the evolution of the brand but she realized she would have conditioned the company in staying on as creative directorone goal is to reach more younger customers expanding from the brands extremely loyal customer base of over40s he saidproli said the nearly 70yearold brand needs to be dusted off and made more relevant and cool we want to offer elements of surprise in a more modern language while not betraying missonis roots