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February 2001
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Milan Women’s collections - F-W 2001-2002
The gesture carried out by
Tilda Swinton
on this edition’s cover echoes the
first exhibition which was dedicated to
Anna Piaggi
.
Therefore, we are even
happier to contribute to the promotion of this event.
“
Most clients sit patiently while I place a hat on their heads. Anna would take
it into her hands, try it on back- to-front, upside-down, pin on a jewel, add a
veil... make it her own. Then she would turn to me and with a pout say:
’
You see’..
.”
Stephen Jones
, 2013.
One year after the passing of
Anna Piaggi
,
her legendary and eclectic hat
collection will be exhibited at the Palazzo Morando. In collaboration with
Associazione Culturale Anna Piaggi, Comune di Milano, the Camera Nazionale
della Moda Italiana
,
curator
Stephen Jones
will celebrate Anna’s frivolous
and unique collection. The Exhibition
“
HAT-OLOGY, Anna Piaggi and her hats”
is the first of a series of initiatives dedicated to Anna’s versatile and brilliant
personality, one of the first journalist and writers able to decrypt the stylistic
codes of fashion, creating links with different forms of art and emphasizing
the importance of street culture.
The
Associazione Culturale Anna Piaggi
has organized in collaboration with
the
London College of Fashion – University of the Arts
,
the cataloguing and
archiving of Anna’s clothes collection, that is going on nowadays in Milan.
The results of this work will be published soon on a dedicated internet site.