The Mysterious Fashion Editor "Walking Fashion Museum" Died This Month

Anna Piaggi And Stephen Jones at an exhibition in London in 2006

An Italian magazine confirmed her death. Some of her most striking and influential works were created in this magazine.

Her knowledge of fashion history is very extensive clothing The time span is more than 200 years, so it is called "walking museum". Manolo Blahnik designed many shoes for her and once described her as "the only dress expert in the world".

Piaget is an eccentric editor of Diana Vreeland Fan. ("My pet is my hat," she said.) But in view of her unrestrained, dramatic and awe inspiring sensitivity to clothing, people compare her more with Marchesa Luisa Casati. In her more than 50 years of career, Piaget has become a symbol of grasping various fashion trends. Seeing her, she will think of those young and wild people she supports designer 。 Many of them regard her as a muse, the most famous of which is Karl Lagerfeld, who was in a brilliant career in Paris in the 1960s and 1970s.

Alicia Drake wrote in The Beautiful Fall that Piaget "is very keen on leading fashion". On a weekend trip with Lagerfeld and his entourage, she can bring several boxes of clothes: "old style haute couture, old style riding pants in the Chelsea market, Edwardian knickerbockers dyed dark black by her, and a canvas cape for decoration, which originated from the costumes of Stravinsky's Firebird for the first performance by the Russian Ballet."

At fashion conferences, editors and photographers usually wait for Piaget to enter, because she must be a point of interest - unless she wears a super big hat, at this time, in order not to block the vision of others, she can only watch the performance backstage.

Even so, what is more striking is her appearance: white powder on her face, two groups of bright blushes painted on her cheeks, blue or black eye shadows painted on her eyelids, exaggerated Cupid bow shaped lips painted, and a miniature clown hat leaning on her blue curly hair (usually the work of Stephen Jones). Piaget claims that since the early 1980s, she has never taken Hat Just go out.

"Wearing a good hat can relax me a lot," she said.

In 2006, an exhibition was held in London's "Victoria and Albert" Museum to pay tribute to Piaget's dress style, attracting 4000 visitors a week. All the items in this exhibition come from her wardrobe: 265 pairs of shoes, 29 fans, 932 hats, 2865 skirts, 24 aprons and 31 feather scarves.

According to an Italian magazine, Piaget was born in Milan in 1931. In a profile of a magazine in London in 2004, she said that her father was the manager and buyer of a department store in the la Rinascente. When she was seven years old, her father died. Her family education is a bit traditional, she said, "but this conservative attitude does not last long."

In the 1950s, when she was working as an interpreter in a news agency, she met the photographer Alfa Castaldi. Many photos of an Italian magazine were created by Alpha. He brought Piaget into the fashion magazine industry. They married in 1962 and worked together until Castadi died in 1995.

Piaget got acquainted with Vern Lambert when searching for clothes in London stores. Lambert is a fashion historian and antique clothing dealer. She said that he inspired her interest in collecting clothes. The first time she saw Lagerfeld was at his home in Paris, when Lagerfeld was designing for the brand Chlo é. On that day, she was wearing an influential dress designed by Ossie Clark, which Lagerfeld recognized at a glance. He began to sketch her clothes for many years, and finally collected and published them.

From 1981 to 1983, Piaget was the editor in chief of Vanity magazine. Later, people became crazy about that magazine. Many of the magazine covers were painted by Antonio Lopez.

When Franca Sozzani became an editor of a magazine in Italy in 1988, she said that she wanted to be a magazine that could quickly catch fashion hot spots, so she hired Piaget as a creative consultant. There, Piaget established a connection between fashion and cultural trends. She likes to use a so-called two page format, which is to place the design on the runway of the current season side by side with the pictures of the traditional clothes that she refers to, which has become a template for modern fashion reports.

Ana Piaget's fashion Logic says that the double page design "seems to me like a dress has become a shape". Due to her unique style of dress, Piaget has been selected into the "World's Best Dressed List" for many times, and was included in the "Best Dressed Hall of Fame" in 2007.

"She dresses as if she were acting," Lagerfeld once said. "She plays very well, and she is also the screenwriter of the play."

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