![]() ![]() My nature has always been to be superficial. I love the atmosphere, the clothes… I never think of money, just style and power. “It’s the theory of queenship that I dream of. She died on August 2012 in her one-bedroom apartment, located in a converted 14th-century convent, in Milan. Part of her hat collection was also exhibited this past September in the “Hat-ology: Anna Piaggi and her Hats” exhibition curated by Stephen Jones. In 2006 the Victoria and Albert Museum in London held the “Anna Piaggi Fashion-ology” exhibition, where her extraordinary collection of 2,865 dresses, 24 aprons, 31 feather boas, 932 hats and 265 pairs of shoes - including both vintage couture and designer pieces, like Balenciaga, Poiret, Fendi and Galliano - were displayed. ![]() With Anna it’s about fun and interest and frivolity.” Her outfits were an inspiration for designer and her fellow friend, Karl Lagerfeld who often sketched her: “If he liked how I looked, he took out his pencils,” Piaggi recalled in a 2009 interview. It’s not about chic, or a grand gesture, as it was with Diana Vreeland. And what is to be avoided at all costs is the twinset look, the total look.” She never appeared in the same outfit more than once in public.īritish milliner Stephen Jones once said of her signature style: “She’s about the possibility of what fashion can be. Piaggi, a native Italian, rose through the ranks at Vogue Italia but became well. There’s a little bit of study, and it’s always better if I think about what I’m going to wear the night before the next day. Anna Piaggi, a fashion journalist known as much for her exuberant outfits as for her writing, has died aged 81. Her outfits were always meticulously planned in advance: “I never pick up something and just throw it on my back like that. At one of Lagerfeld’s parties, she dressed as “a Venetian fisherman’s wife in vintage black velvet Fortuny with a basket of spider crabs and a couple of dead pigeons on her head,” wrote Alicia Drake in The Beautiful Fall. 31, 2012 When we began planning a tribute to fashion’s originals for W ’s 40th anniversary, our starting point was Anna Piaggi, the legendary magazine editor known for her amalgam of. When it came to personal style, she made “her own rules” and “her philosophy of fashion was humor, jokes and games”. She remained a contributor to the magazine until she passed away.īesides her successful fashion career, Piaggi was famous for her inimitable eccentric appearance: kaleidoscopic dressing, theatrical make-up with bold lips and rosy cheeks, tilted hats and eye-popping headpieces, and short but always groomed blue hair. They were what Editor-in-Chief Franca Sozzani called “visual stimuli”: double-page spreads, where Piaggi interpreted current fashion trends based on cultural references in them in 1999, a collection of these spreads was published in the book Fashion Algebra in 2004, she told The Guardian she had produced 6,500 pages of editorial. Double Pages (Doppie Pagine) by Anna Piaggi. This was the time she created the marvellous collages for her column D.P. From 1980 to 1983, she was the editor-in-chief of Condé Nast’s avant-garde style magazine Vanity, and in 1988 Vogue Italia hired her as a creative consultant. He was the man who introduced Piaggi to the spectacular world of fashion magazines.īy the ’60s, she was working as an editor for Italian women’s magazine Arianna - one of Italy’s first women’s magazines - and contributed to several fashion magazines, including La Settimana Incom, Epoca, Linea Italiana, Annabella, Panorama and L’Espresso. The two would work together until his death in 1995. Around the same time, she met photographer Alfa Castaldi, whom she married in 1962. During the 1950s, while working as a translator for publishing house Mondatory in Milan, she began her career in journalism, when she audaciously walked up to Elizabeth Taylor at La Scala and asked her for an interview. Print is the language I know best.”Īnna Piaggi, legendary Vogue Italia fashion contributor and best known for her unique approach to fashion, was born in Milan in 1931. ![]() Without her, the European fashion scene will be greatly diminished.”I dress the way I write I paint my own portrait like a collage. While many observers thought her clothes were vintage, in fact they were mostly by contemporary designers, with an occasional vintage coat. Later, in London, she met Vern Lambert, a fashion historian, and together they created a style of dress that must be classified as a tour de force. Her husband, Alfa Castaldi, a fashion photographer, introduced her to the world of high style. By the next year, as seen in the photo above left, she was mixing vintage clothes and those of different designers. In one picture at right, she wears a black suit with an enormous plexiglass flower pinned to the lapel, at a show in Paris in 1969. These black- and-white photos, taken mostly in the ’70s and ’80s, show her creative style at full peak. A hundred years from now, fashion historians will want to know about the astonishing style of Anna Piaggi, an Italian fashion editor who died in Milan on Aug. ![]()
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