The unembellished life is not worth living. Veteran Italian fashion journalist Anna Piaggi died on Tuesday at her home in Milan. She was 81 and was no stranger to personal expression through curlicue headpieces. At Paloma Picasso’s 1978 wedding, Women’s Wear Daily reported how Piaggi’s feathered hat burst into flames as she walked by a lit candelabra.
Piaggi made the international best dressed list hall of fame, in the “fashion originals” category, and her personal wardrobe was the subject of the 2006 Anna Piaggi Fashion-ology exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
The front-row fixture regaled us all with her crazy outfits, whether she was on theme as a pirate captain in a hat decorated with cascade of feathers, or emblazoned with union jacks on hat, dress and handbag. Her joyfully creative headgear might have consisted of a rainbow of fur pom-poms above an ensemble of equally colourful (and often clashing) prints. She was a one-woman, three-ring circus of style.
The unembellished life is not worth living. Veteran Italian fashion journalist Anna Piaggi died on Tuesday at her home in Milan. She was 81 and was no stranger to personal expression through curlicue headpieces. At Paloma Picasso’s 1978 wedding, Women’s Wear Daily reported how Piaggi’s feathered hat burst into flames as she walked by a lit candelabra.
Piaggi made the international best dressed list hall of fame, in the “fashion originals” category, and her personal wardrobe was the subject of the 2006 Anna Piaggi Fashion-ology exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
The front-row fixture regaled us all with her crazy outfits, whether she was on theme as a pirate captain in a hat decorated with cascade of feathers, or emblazoned with union jacks on hat, dress and handbag. Her joyfully creative headgear might have consisted of a rainbow of fur pom-poms above an ensemble of equally colourful (and often clashing) prints. She was a one-woman, three-ring circus of style.