Anna Piaggi
{{Short description|Italian fashion writer (1931–2012)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1931|03|22|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Milan, Italy
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2012|08|07|1931|03|22|df=yes}}
| death_place = Milan, Italy
| occupation = fashion writer
| language = Italian
| spouse = Alfa Castaldi
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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.{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com/products/fashion-photography-archive/article/anna-piaggi|chapter=Anna Piaggi|last=Pass|first=Victoria Rose|title=Fashion Photography Archive |publisher=London: Bloomsbury|year=2015|doi=10.5040/9781474260428-fpa174|isbn=978-147426042-8 }}
Career
Piaggi was born in Milan on 22 March 1931.Diana Formaggio, Francesco Marraro (1987). [https://books.google.com/books?id=QLkjAQAAIAAJ Il "chi è" del giornalismo italiano: repertorio ragionato ad uso degli uffici stampa]. Roma: Al. Ver. editrice. Accessed May 2014. 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/exhibs_displays/anna_piaggi/piaggi_exhibition/index.html |title=Anna Piaggi - The Exhibition |access-date=2014-05-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070711150607/http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/exhibs_displays/anna_piaggi/piaggi_exhibition/index.html |archive-date=2007-07-11 }}. Victoria and Albert Museum. Archived 11 July 2007. 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.
She used a bright red Olivetti "Valentina" manual typewriter designed by Ettore Sottsass in 1969.{{cite web|url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/exhibs_displays/anna_piaggi/index.html |title=Anna Piaggi: Fashion-ology; 2 February 2006 – 23 April 2006 |access-date=2007-05-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630135833/http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/exhibs_displays/anna_piaggi/index.html |archive-date=2007-06-30 }}. Victoria and Albert Museum. Archived 30 June 2007. 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.{{cite news|url=http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG8296752/Meet-Bill-Cunningham-the-original-street-style-photographer.html|title='Bill Cunningham New York', gets UK cinema release|access-date=9 August 2012|last=Whitwort|first=Melissa|date=1 February 2012|location=London|work=The Daily Telegraph}}
Personal life
Piaggi married the photographer Alfa Castaldi in 1962 in New York. Castaldi died in 1995.{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E7DC103CF934A15750C0A962958260|title=ON THE STREET; Apart From the Crowd|work=The New York Times|access-date=20 January 2008|last=Cunningham|first=Bill|date=27 March 1994}} Piaggi died in Milan on 7 August 2012.{{cite news|url=http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/article/TMG9458877/Fashion-world-mourns-death-of-fashion-writer-Anna-Piaggi.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808052753/http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/article/TMG9458877/Fashion-world-mourns-death-of-fashion-writer-Anna-Piaggi.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 August 2012|title=Fashion world mourns death of fashion writer Anna Piaggi|publisher=The Telegraph|access-date=7 August 2012|last=Bergin|first=Olivia|date=7 August 2012|location=London}}{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/fashion-journalist-anna-piaggi-81-was-known-for-her-unique-style-of-clothing/2012/08/08/35207cbc-e19d-11e1-a25e-15067bb31849_story.html | newspaper=The Washington Post | first=Hank | last=Stuever | title=Fashion journalist Anna Piaggi, 81, was known for her unique style of clothing | date=9 August 2012}}
Books
- (with Karl Lagerfeld) Karl Lagerfeld: A Fashion Journal. Thames and Hudson, 1986. {{ISBN|0500013950}}
- (with Gianni Brera) Africa di Missoni per Italia 90. Edizioni Electa, 1990. {{ISBN|8843534106}}
- Anna Piaggi's Fashion Algebra. Thames and Hudson, 1998. {{ISBN|0500018766}}
- Doppie pagine di Anna Piaggi in Vogue. Leonardo Arte, 1998. {{ISBN|8878138835}}
- (with Anna Wintour, Michael Roberts, André Leon Talley and Manolo Blahnik) Manolo Blahnik Drawings. Thames and Hudson, 2003. {{ISBN|050028413X}}
References
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Further reading
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- Clark, Judith (editor). Anna Piaggi Fashion-ology. Victoria and Albert Museum, 2006. {{ISBN|0-9552335-0-X}}/{{ISBN|978-0-9552335-0-0}}.
- Lagerfeld, Karl. Lagerfeld's Sketchbook: Karl Lagerfeld's Illustrated Fashion Journal of Anna Piaggi. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. {{ISBN|1-55584-019-1}}.
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Category:Italian women writers