At that point, Armani had worked as a window dresser and buyer at Milan department store La Rinascente and was designing for Italian menswear house Cerruti.
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The brand got its first break in 1958, when the Rinascente department store commissioned 500 colorful vertically striped shirt dresses the first to carry the Missoni label.
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