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The fashion journalist Anna Piaggi died of a heart attack on the night of August 7th. A simple funeral took place for the eccentric fashion lady who on Thursday August 9th was buried in Milan's Cimitero Maggiore. Her fashion designer friends? All on holiday!!
The fashion journalist Anna Piaggi died of a heart attack on the night of August 7th. A simple funeral took place for the eccentric fashion lady who on Thursday August 9th was buried in Milan's Cimitero Maggiore. Her fashion designer friends? All on holiday!!
Milan - On Monday August 6th, the fashion journalist Anna Piaggi received a phone call from her brother inviting her to come the on vacation with him the following day. Anna turned down the invitation because she did not feel up to it. It was hot in Milan, one of the hottest summers ever. The temperature had climbed to over 35 degrees but the high humidity made it feel more like 40°. The City of Milan invited citizens to report cases of elderly people living alone or in difficulty, as the weather was very dangerous for their health.
On the morning of August 7th at about 10 a.m., her assistant turned up at Anna’s house in Via Cappuccio in the Sant’Ambrogio district of Milan, but this time he did not find the house keys that Anna habitually left for safety’s sake under the doormat. He knocked repeatedly but got no reply. Alarmed, he called the police, who arrived soon after.
The police had to force the lock to get into the apartment. Inside Anna Piaggi was found lying on the floor. There was no point calling an ambulance because she was already dead. Anna's body was not in her bedroom because she had apparently got up during the night, perhaps to ask for help. A medical examination showed she died of a heart attack. It was 11 when a call reached her brother, telling him of Anna’s tragic death, as he was travelling on vacation. He turned back at once.
Anna Piaggi’s funeral was held at 2.45 p.m. on Thursday, August 9th, in the Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio, one of the oldest churches in central Milan.
A small group of people, about ninety in all, attended the funeral, being mostly members of the family, some old friends living nearby, a small knot of fellow journalists and we from Humor Chic. We spoke to some of those present and were able to reconstruct the tragic event.
Monsignor Biagio Pizzi celebrated Anna Piaggi's last goodbye. Monsignor Pizzi knows the people of his neighborhood well, including Anna who was a a very kind lady and who always passed pay to say hello when she went for her yearly Christmas blessing, says Monsignor Pizzi. He also added that for the occasion Anna would turn up in Church dressed in eccentric outfits
Monsignor Biagio Pizzi celebrated Anna Piaggi's last goodbye. Monsignor Pizzi knows the people of his neighborhood well, including Anna who was a a very kind lady and who always passed pay to say hello when she went for her yearly Christmas blessing, says Monsignor Pizzi. He also added that for the occasion Anna would turn up in Church dressed in eccentric outfits
Only one camera filmed the service in the basilica, an absolute masterpiece of early medieval Romanesque. No famous Italian fashion designer was present, not even her old friend Karl Lagerfeld. It was summer, everyone was too busy with their beloved vacations, and then today you can commemorate a friend with a "tweet" or at most make a statement through your press office. None of the fashionistas found time for Anna, no doubt thinking hey, so what!, and anyway Anna will never know!
She had seen them as they developed and had always supported them, inspired them and given them wise advice. She never missed a fashion show or any other event, even the simplest. Anna Piaggi died alone, among her rags, just as happens to many old people like her, the only people who still inhabit the sweltering city in this period, invisible ....
Anna Piaggi was buried at the Cimitero Maggiore, Milan's largest cemetry. I wonder if after the summer holidays any of her old friends in the fashion industry will find the time to go and talk to her!
Good bye Anna
