Togno

Rita (1913). Italian fur designer. She was born in Asti. Responding to an early ambition, as soon as she finished an exclusive course in dressmaking, she moved on to Milan where she continued her apprenticeship in a strict school for future furriers. Her first items, made in a small Turinese workshop, were greeted in the years following WWII with an unexpected popularity because of their impeccable cut and rigorous execution. Within a few years Togno had become a well-known name, alongside names like Tivioli, Viscardi and Naldoni. They were responsible for the importance that Turin won in the furrier trade. She collaborated, with high fashion items, on the Roman runway presentations of Mila Schön and Irene Galitzine, thus increased her reputation even further with the novelty of her creations: colored, intarsiaed furs, reversible in other futs or fabrics, sculpted, transparent breitschwanz shawls and geometrically intarsiaed chincilla, dazzling in its elegance.