Missoni: the latest tragedy in the world of Italian fashion

# Maurizio Gucci was gunned down. His wife was sentenced
# Blumarine founder was crushed by two elephants
# Gianni Versace was gunned down at the gates of his villa in Miami
# Nicola Trussardi crashed his Mercedes. His son, with his Ferrari

The tragedy is almost a constant in the world of Italian fashion. There are many firms in recent years have been shaken by violent deaths: from Versace to Gucci, Trussardi and Blumarine through. The latest addition to that list could be fatal Missoni: fashion house that lives between distress and anxiety from the last day in April, when the twin-engine plane he was traveling Vittorio Missoni (son of Ottavio Missoni, the founder of the firm ) along with his partner and a couple of friends disappeared mysteriously while doing the route Archipelago Los Roques to Caracas, Venezuela.

Since then nothing is known of the appliance or the fate of their occupants. It is speculated that the twin-engine could fall into the sea after suffering a breakdown or being beaten by lightning, but for now the rescue efforts to find his whereabouts have not yielded any results. The Missoni, meanwhile, desperately cling to the hope that the plane he was flying Vittorio had been kidnapped. But that possibility seems increasingly remote.

It appears that, much to his dismay, the Missoni will join the list of Italian fashion companies touched by misfortune. A cast that opened in 1995 the house Gucci, when in a firefight in the center of Milan, was gunned down at the gates of their luxurious residence Maurizio Gucci, heir to the empire of the same name. Two years after his wife, Patrizia Reggiani, was sentenced to 26 years in prison for bribing a thug to liquidate him. He decided to send to another neighborhood to her husband when he announced that he had relations with a woman much younger than her and offered "only" $ 650,000 in exchange for the divorce. A figure that Patrizia Reggiani indignantly refused, calling it "a mess of pottage."
A tragedy of Gucci was followed by Blumarine. In 1996 the industrial Gianpaolo Tarabini Castellani, who with his wife founded the firm stylist Blumarine, died massacred by two elephants during a hunt in Africa, particularly in Zimbabwe. He was 68 years and for a decade Mr. Blumarine, as it was popularly known, went to Africa to hunt annually. But in 1996 the appointment of two angry elephants attacked their group and killed him.

On July 15, 1997 it was his turn to Versace. That day, in broad daylight, Gianni Versace was killed by two shots at the gates of his villa in Miami Beach. Was 50 and he was at the height of their success. The person who pulled the trigger and shot twice descender the famous Italian designer was a madman named Andrew Cunanan, a drug addict who was engaged in gay prostitution and the U.S. police had long sought to regard him as a serial murderer. After a desperate flight of eight days, Cunanan committed suicide before the U.S. security forces consiguieran catch him.

Two years later, in 1999, when they reached the Trussardi. The night between 12 and 13 April 1999 the stylist Nicola Trussardi crashed his Mercedes. After two days in a coma, died. And four years later, tragedy again primed with Trussardi: this time with Francesco, Nicola Trussardi's firstborn and heir to the empire. He was driving his Ferrari when he crashed into a dessert electric. He died immediately.