Anna Maria Piaggi | |
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Born | Milan, Italy | 22 March 1931
Died | 7 August 2012 Milan, Italy | (aged 81)
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]
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]
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]