Anna Piaggi A Legacy Remembered .

Legendary Italian fashion journalist and style icon Anna Piaggi
left all our fashion soul's completely shattered on Tuesday August 7, 2012
in her home in Milan. She was 81.
Anna Piaggi is one of Adrian Alicea's highest inspiration .

From her days running around in the crazy streets of Paris during the’70s with Karl Lagerfeld
up until last year, Anna was a walking couture creation in the fashion world, known for her eccentric ensembles, tilted hats, and short blue hair. Her outstanding personality and broad sence of humor landed her to be one of the most respected women in the fashion world.
Lady Gaga is notorious for her outrageous style, but Anna did it first.

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13 years ago, Anna Piaggi handed Adrian Alicea the cover of " VOGUE "
At this point, Adrian knew he had impressed the right people .

A boxing helmet with screws attached, showing the strength and power of the beholder.

  

 10 years later , Adrian is preparing for his S/S Fashion Week Collection ,

 

 

 

" HYBRIDS OF THE DEEP BLUE SEA "

 

Paying homage to the queen of couture her self,

 

" to me Anna Piaggi is a hybrid, she is immortal and her soul will never die, a legacy just like I plan to be. Her extreme visionary inspires me to take my designs to another world, & this is when I've decided to look in the darkness of the deep blue sea , because that is where the most beautiful pieces are hidden "

 

- Adrian Alicea

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

R.I.P TO THE QUEEN OF COUTURE .

ANNA PIAGGI

1931 - 2012 .

 

From her days touring around the crazy city of Paris in the ’70s with alongside

Karl Lagerfeld up until last year, Anna was a sensational iconic star walking coutore in the fashion world, known for her eccentric ensembles, tilted hats, and short blue hair. She was one of the last of a group of personalities in the fashion media who became notorious for their outrageous style.

Piaggi began her career in journalism in the late 1950s, when she brazenly approached Elizabeth Taylor at La Scala to ask for an interview. The actress obliged and Piaggi started making a name for herself.

By the 1970s she wrote regularly for Vogue Italia and had cemented her place in the fashion world with her over-the-top outfits. At one of Lagerfeld’s parties, she dressed as “a Venetian fisherman’s wife in vintage black velvet Fortuny with a basket of spider crabs and a couple of dead pigeons on her head,” wrote Alicia Drake in the 2006 book “The Beautiful Fall.