The late fashion editor Anna Piaggi’s hat collection will be on public display during Milan Fashion Week this September, as British milliner Stephen Jones curates an exhibition celebrating her obsession with headgear.   

The ‘Hat-ology’ exhibition will be at the Palazzo Morando fashion museum from September 22 as the fashion world descends on the city for the spring/summer 2014 shows. 

Women's Wear Daily reports that the show will ‘feature everything from a McDonald’s baseball cap to Chanel couture creations’ and presumably there will be plenty in between as Jones will have his work cut out for him attempting to edit the legendary editor’s hat collection. Italian Vogue contributing editor Piaggi, who died aged 81 in 2012, was rarely spotted without a hat on the front row.

No doubt she would have trusted that Jones was up to the job though as she once said: ‘Stephen Jones is the maker of the most beautiful hats in the world.’

See her look book for her most flamboyant millinery moments.