Anna Piaggi
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Anna Maria Piaggi | |
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| Born | 22 March 1932 Milan, Italy |
| Died | 7 August 2012 (aged 80) Milan |
| Pen name | Anna Piaggi |
| Occupation | translator, fashion writer |
| Language | Italian |
| Nationality | Italian |
Anna Maria Piaggi (22 March 1931 – 7 August 2012) was an Italian fashion writer and style icon.
Career
Piaggi was born in Milan on 22 March 1931.[1] 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.[2]
She used a bright red Olivetti "Valentina" manual typewriter designed by Ettore Sottsass in 1969.[3] Piaggi had a large clothes collection, including 2,865 dresses and 265 pairs of shoes,[citation needed] according to a 2006 exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She dressed in an exuberant, unique and eclectic way, never appearing in the same outfit more than once in public.[citation needed]
Piaggi appeared in the documentary Bill Cunningham New York on the New York Times fashion and social photographer Bill Cunningham.[4]
Personal life
Piaggi married the photographer Alfa Castaldi in 1962 in New York. Castaldi died in 1995.[5] Piaggi died in Milan on 7 August 2012.[6][7]
Books
- Piaggi, Anna and Karl Lagerfeld. Karl Lagerfeld: A Fashion Journal. Thames and Hudson, 1986. ISBN 0-500-01395-0.
- Lagerfeld, Karl. Lagerfeld's Sketchbook: Karl Lagerfeld's Illustrated Fashion Journal of Anna Piaggi. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. ISBN 1-55584-019-1.
- Piaggi, A. Africa di Missoni per Italia 90, Anna Piaggi and Gianni Brera. Edizioni Electa, 1990. ISBN 88-435-3410-6.
- Piaggi, A. Anna Piaggi's Fashion Algebra, Anna Piaggi. Thames and Hudson, 1998. ISBN 0-500-01876-6.
- Piaggi, A. Doppie pagine di Anna Piaggi in Vogue. Leonardo Arte, 1998. ISBN 88-7813-883-5.
- Piaggi, A., Wintour, Anna, Michael Roberts, André Leon Talley, and Manolo Blahnik. Manolo Blahnik Drawings. Thames and Hudson, 2003. ISBN 0-500-28413-X.
- Clark, Judith (editor). Anna Piaggi Fashion-ology. Victoria and Albert Museum, 2006. ISBN 0-9552335-0-X/ISBN 978-0-9552335-0-0.
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Anna Piaggi - The Exhibition". Archived from the original on 2007-07-11. Retrieved 2014-05-22.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help). Victoria and Albert Museum. Archived 11 July 2007. - ^ "Anna Piaggi: Fashion-ology; 2 February 2006 – 23 April 2006". Archived from the original on 2007-06-30. Retrieved 2007-05-28.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help). Victoria and Albert Museum. Archived 30 June 2007. - ^ Whitwort, Melissa (1 February 2012). "'Bill Cunningham New York', gets UK cinema release". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
- ^ Cunningham, Bill (27 March 1994). "ON THE STREET; Apart From the Crowd". New York Times. Retrieved 20 January 2008.
- ^ Bergin, Olivia (7 August 2012). "Fashion world mourns death of fashion writer Anna Piaggi". London: The Telegraph. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
- ^ Stuever, Hank (9 August 2012). "Fashion journalist Anna Piaggi, 81, was known for her unique style of clothing". The Washington Post.
