The "Grand Dame" of
Italy's Expression of
High Fashion by way of
Italian VOGUE. For over 50 years Ms. Piaggi has written and "racked" Europe's Look at fashion. Inparticularly Italy, France & England. She is most definitely a Living LEGEND. Now in her Seventies,
Anna Piaggi still expresses and shows ALL that follow, how it's ALL done. Style! This is Something
Anna Piaggi has always exhilarated. Lucky for me, I had a chance to meet and hang out with her and her late husband,
Alfa Castaldi at their home when I lived in Milano, thanks to Yvonne Taylor Cheyne. WOW! They gave lovely parties back then and she is indeed, a Lovely human being. I have collected some great photos of Anna Piaggi for your viewing. After you have reviewed them you will see why she continues to be such an inspiration to the Industry called FASHION. Further Notes on Miss Piaggi follows:
Anna Piaggi is an
Italian fashion writer and style icon. Anna Piaggi has worked as a translator for an Italian publishing company
Mondadori, then written for fashion magazines such as the Italian edition of
Vogue and, in the 1980s, the avant-garde magazine
Vanity. She is known especially for double page spreads in the Italian
Vogue, where her artistic flair has been given free expression in a montage of images and text, with layout by
Luca Stoppini. Since 1969, she has used a bright red manual
Olivetti valentine typewriter for her work. Piaggi has a large clothes collection, including 2865 dresses and 265 pairs of shoes, according to a 2006 exhibition at the
Victoria and Albert Museum in
London. She dresses in an exuberant, unique and eclectic way, never appearing in the same outfit more than once in public. Such is her influence and knowledge in the fashion world,
Manolo Blahnik has dubbed her 'The world's last great authority on frocks'. Her associates in the fashion world include the fashion designer
Karl Lagerfeld (from the 1970s), who has often sketched her, and
Manolo Blahnik, who is the designer of many of her shoes. She is the muse of British milliner
Stephen Jones. She is also an admirer of
British clothes designer
Vivienne Westwood and her hats, made by
Prudence Millinery. She is rarely seen without fingerless gloves, mostly by UK designer label Glovedup Gloves (www.Glovedup.com). She has lived in
New York and has visited London and Italy periodically since the 1950s. Piaggi was married to the photographer
Alfa Castaldi in 1962 in New York. Castaldi died in 1995.
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Back in 2005, Gareth Pugh
was living in a squat in London when all the important UK fashion
magazines attached themselves to him like a Fred Perry-clad tumor. Fresh
out of fashion school and an internship with Rick Owens, he was soon a
style-page wank fantasy, representative of the type of hijinks English
fashion clamors for. It was all justified. Gareth’s first shows featured
inflatable outfits and light-strewn garments. Everyone in attendance
over the age of 30 offered mealy-mouthed praise—like it was all very
well and fun and diverting but ultimately fey and immature. Attendees
under the age of 25, however, cheered the models and clothes down the
runway, feeling like somebody had finally reinvented fashion for the
21st century and rescued us all from retro regurgitation. Six years on,
fashion sites are overflowing with photos of androgynous kids addicted
to black who look just like Pugh. His line garners the type of attention
and praise usually reserved for the vaunted and dusty old guard. He
shows annually in Paris and New York, working and hanging out with all
the ritziest fashion people, like Karl Lagerfeld and Mario Testino. We’ve known him for a while, though, so we persuaded him to take a few minutes for the following little chat..Read on : View more Gareth’s Collection 
