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.
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Karl Largerfeld considered her a muse.
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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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New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham called her "a fine poet in clothes.