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Anna Piaggi tested her aesthetic inventions and her clothing explorations on herself, and nothing was more disconcerting than the contrast between the work and the author, summed up in the selfsame person.
In the comparison with Carlo Emilio Gadda, Anna Piaggi holds her own, in addition to the analogy between their homes, which are both shadowy and full of old furniture.
As discreet in life as the Engineer, like him she was baroque and daring in her inspiration. Unmindful of the standard code, Anna continually invented new ones. She would combine “pieces” of clothing on herself which were, to all appearances, incongruous: a 1930s sailor outfit worn with a 1970s wig, a tweed skirt with fifteenth century chainmail (Anna, the first to adopt and launch the “vintage” style, was scrupulous regarding authenticity and would wander for miles in markets to find it).
