Anna Piaggi: Fashion Visionary(Anna Piaggi: Una visionaria nella moda)
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Italy · 2016
52m
Director Alina Marazzi
Starring Manolo Blahnik, Claudia Botta, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Stephen Jones
Genre Documentary
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The world of fashion, between the end of the Sixties and the beginning of the Noughties, had a key character that embodied its spirit and told the tale: journalist Anna Piaggi, living witness of that contamination between art, society and culture that changed fashion and sanctioned its success on a global scale. The daughter of a manager for La Rinascente (Milan's iconic high-end shopping mall whose foundation goes back to 1865), Karl Lagerfeld's muse, "a poet with her clothes" in the words of Bill Cunningham, her life is retraced through interviews with designers (Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Stephen Jones, Manolo Blahnik, and more) together with archival images from four decades of fashion history.