Anna Piaggi
Anna Maria Piaggi | |
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| Born | 22 March 1931 Milan, Italy |
| Died | 7 August 2012 (aged 81) Milan, Italy |
| Occupation | fashion writer |
| Language | Italian |
| Spouse | Alfa Castaldi |
Anna Maria Piaggi (22 March 1931 – 7 August 2012) was an Italian fashion writer. She was known for her bright blue hair, liberal use of make-up, and her sense of style that mixed vintage and contemporary fashion.[1]
Career
[edit | edit source]Piaggi was born in Milan on 22 March 1931.[2] She worked as a translator for an Italian publishing company Mondadori, then wrote for fashion magazines such as the Italian edition of Vogue and, in the 1980s, the avant-garde magazine Vanity. From 1988 she designed double page spreads in the Italian Vogue, where her artistic flair was given free expression in a montage of images and text, with layout by Luca Stoppini.[3] These networks of images and ideas built upon Piaggi's awareness of fashion and art history to provide an open-ended attempt at understanding fashion designers' influences.[1]
She used a bright red Olivetti "Valentina" manual typewriter designed by Ettore Sottsass in 1969.[4] She dressed in an exuberant, unique and eclectic way.
Piaggi appeared in the documentary Bill Cunningham New York about The New York Times fashion and social photographer Bill Cunningham.[5]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Piaggi married the photographer Alfa Castaldi in 1962 in New York. Castaldi died in 1995.[6] Piaggi died in Milan on 7 August 2012.[7][8]
Books
[edit | edit source]- (with Karl Lagerfeld) Karl Lagerfeld: A Fashion Journal. Thames and Hudson, 1986. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- (with Gianni Brera) Africa di Missoni per Italia 90. Edizioni Electa, 1990. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Anna Piaggi's Fashion Algebra. Thames and Hudson, 1998. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Doppie pagine di Anna Piaggi in Vogue. Leonardo Arte, 1998. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- (with Anna Wintour, Michael Roberts, André Leon Talley and Manolo Blahnik) Manolo Blahnik Drawings. Thames and Hudson, 2003. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
References
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- ^ Diana Formaggio, Francesco Marraro (1987). Il "chi è" del giornalismo italiano: repertorio ragionato ad uso degli uffici stampa. Roma: Al. Ver. editrice. Accessed May 2014.
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Clark, Judith (editor). Anna Piaggi Fashion-ology. Victoria and Albert Museum, 2006. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)./Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Lagerfeld, Karl. Lagerfeld's Sketchbook: Karl Lagerfeld's Illustrated Fashion Journal of Anna Piaggi. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
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