Silvia Bisconti, Visionary Fashion Designer and Founder of Raptus&Rose, Passes Away

Silvia Bisconti, designer and founder of the Raptus&Rose brand, passed away yesterday. The news was announced with a post on her Instagram page by her family and her team: "With great sorrow, we announce the death of Silvia Bisconti, the visionary founder of Raptus&Rose. We share with you, her beloved community and endless source of inspiration, this moment. As she would have wanted, our commitment will now be to carry forward her extraordinary mission." Fashion designer, theatrical costume designer, assistant to Romeo Gigli, creative director of Maliparmi, founder of the Raptus&Rose brand. This was Silvia Bisconti, who passed away yesterday at the age of 61. "I dress women by listening to their soul, in a gentle revolution that can invade the world with Beauty," reads her Instagram profile. And it was with a post on social media that the news of her passing was spread: "With great pain, we announce the death of Silvia Bisconti, the visionary founder of Raptus&Rose. We share with you, her beloved community and endless source of inspiration, this moment. As she would have wanted, our commitment will now be to carry forward her extraordinary mission," reads the message, signed "The Family and the Raptus Team." Born in Milan in 1961 and graduated from the Marangoni Institute, then a theatrical costume designer in major Italian productions (among the latest shows, Cyrano de Bergerac for the 100th anniversary of the Eliseo theater in Rome), Silvia Bisconti was for a decade the right-hand woman of Romeo Gigli. From 1999, for thirteen years, she was the creative director of Maliparmi, in Padua, later becoming, between 2012 and 2014, personal designer for a sheikha of the United Arab Emirates. In 2013 she founded Raptus&Rose, a company that has its headquarters in the Atelier on the river, in Belluno, where an ancient printing house along the Piave became the beating heart of her fashion founded on the idea of tailor-made clothes and unique pieces mostly sewn by hand with the highest quality tailoring. Her gift has always been to create beauty, or rather to find it even where we think there is none, and to sew it onto people. An experience that she also condensed into a book, "Diary of an Eccentric Traveler," published in 2019 by La Nave di Teseo, before inaugurating the new Milanese home in via Farini. Asymmetrical, refined, the Raptus&Rose garments are created with fabrics, mostly vintage, that come from all over the world. Among the great classics, the Perfecto Dress, cut on the bias, hand-sewn, that does not wrinkle and slides fluidly on the body, accommodating it in movements and shapes, a perfect travel companion. Since 2016 Silvia Bisconti has also shared with Elena Pasquin, psychotherapist of the San Bassiano ODV Oncology Association, of Bassano del Grappa, the Renaissance Fashion Show, a project-show that reconnects women who have gone through or are going through oncological disease with the beauty of their own body.