The journalist was known for her quirky take on fashion, often wearing bright colours, hats and brightly coloured hair and make-up.
Piaggi is best-known for her writing in Vogue Italia, as well as other comissioning pieces in magazines and the editor-in-chief position of Vanity magazine. Her status as a style icon and a staple at the front row of hundreds of catwalk shows propelled her career to new heights in recent decades.
Piaggi's extensive wardrobe was the subject of an exhibition entitled 'Fashion-ology' at London's V&A Museum in 2006, where a selection of her garments and shoe collection were displayed, of which there are reportedly thousands.
Piaggi with Irish milliner Philip Treacy
Karl Lagerfeld often spoke about his admiration for Piaggi and sketched a number of ideas inspired by her. Piaggi was a long-term fan of Vivienne Westwood, a muse for Stephen Jones and a loyal customer and friend of Manolo Blahnik.
With her colourful fashion friend, the designer Zandra Rhodes
Many celebrities, designers and fashion publications gve tribute to the late writer. Dita Von Teese took to Twitter to proclaim 'So sad to hear that Anna Piaggi, one of my last icons of beauty & fashion has passed, She was the height of glamorous eccentricity. X'
Piaggi and the English milliner Stephen Jones attending a memorial tribute to late stylist Isabella Blow
Simon Doonan, fashion commentator, wrote 'Anna Piaggi, editor and muse, was the greatest fashion eccentric of our time'. Vogue Italia editor Franca Sozzani led the tributes, saying that after 23 years of working together 'you will always be remembered Anna'.
The fashion writer died peacefully in her home in Milan yesterday.
