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Anna Piaggi: Fashion-ologyThe V&A Museum sponsored by Topshop plays tribute to "fashion reporter, editor, divinor of trends, designers' muse and self-styled icon" Anna Piaggi with an exhibition.
Anna Piaggi is unique.
"Fashion-ology" refers to her idiosynchratic way of looking at clothes.
With her own take on scientific precision, an attitude rather than a method, she has for over 30 years told the new stories about fashion.
Putting words to clothes, turning pages into shows, styling the future: this has been Anna Piaggi's art of fashion.
To see Piaggi at work is a rare glimpse into her fascinating career. London was a catalyst, and highlights from her personal archive in Milan detail her extraordinary trajectory on the world fashion stage.
The exhibition is divided into 13 statements, sometimes only the size of a text panel, sometimes a room full of objects.
The logic of the layout is a series of intersecting As and upside down As that become Vs: Anna and Vogue, Anna and Vanity, Anna and her husband Alfa, and Vern and the V&A.
Bending the material to fit this system is in keeping with Anna Piaggi's loyalty to typographic design, each month bending words to fit Luca Stoppini's layout in her Double Pages.
The shape allows each section to open onto the next; her ideas are never contained or finished, but will be picked up
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28/2/2006 | Viewed 45,890 time(s)
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