Piaggi, a veteran fashion writer, worked for top fashion magazines like Italian Vogue, but she was perhaps best known for her unequivocally colorful sense of style.
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She favored outlandish hats.
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And had an extensive collection of dyed fur stoles.
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Blue hair was another of her trademarks.
Karl Largerfeld considered her a muse.
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They're pictured here together in 1977.
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They remained friends for decades.
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A sketchbook of Lagerfeld's completely devoted to Piaggi.
Shoe designer Manolo Blahnik was also a close friend.
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Even as she neared 80, Piaggi continued to attend fashion shows in Paris, Milan and London.
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With the blogger BryanBoy and Vogue Japan's Anna dello Russo at the Emilio Pucci show in Milan, in September 2010.
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At Vivienne Westwood's London fashion show in February 2009.
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Outside the Christian Lacroix show in Paris, in July 2009.
New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham called her "a fine poet in clothes.
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