The fashion community around the world is currently grieving over the death of Franca Sozzani, the Italian born fashion icon. She died after a year-l
The fashion community around the world is currently grieving over the death of Franca Sozzani, the Italian born fashion icon. She died after a year-long protracted battle with an undisclosed illness on Thursday. She was the Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Italia, a position she held for 28 years. Before Vogue Italia, she knew early on that she would end up in fashion journalism and so sought to hone her skills in that field.
She then began her career working at Vogue Bambini before moving on to land the role of an editor at Lei, a magazine for young women and later, at Per Lui, its male counterpart. While in both places, she successfully transformed both these titles into showcases for the most dynamic trends in international fashion and lifestyle image-making. In 1988, she was appointed Editor in Chief of Italian Vogue and in 1994, she was made Editor in Chief of Italian Condé Nast and immediately revolutionized the magazine with dynamic covers and content.
Because of her passion to see others succeed especially in the fashion business, she groomed and nurtured some of the best hands in fashion photography business today, all of who were attracted by the unprecedented editorial freedom that she gave them, and her passion for photography. In February 2011, she launched Vogue Curvy, an arm of Vogue staffed by plus-size fashion bloggers who offer fashion tips for the full-figured.
Not only was she an indispensable part of the Italian fashion scene, she was also a philanthropist and was only recently, on December 5th precisely, awarded the Swarovski Fashion Award For Positive Change at the Fashion Awards held in Britain. It was one of the many philanthropic awards she got.
The award which recognises individuals who promote the welfare of others by the generous donation of their resources in order to achieve change and positive impact to good causes, was bestowed on her due to her commitment to diversity and for utilizing her position and influence to positively impact the wider world, for her role as a global ambassador against hunger for the UN World Food Program, for her work with Convivo to eradicate AIDS and her work with the European Institute of Oncology.
Until her death, the shred power broker was a founding member of Child Priority, a non-profit organization created by Condé Nast to offer concrete study and work opportunities for those who have none despite being talented and artistically gifted.
She is survived by a son.
With fellow editor of Vogue, Anna Wintour
With Donald and Melanie Trump
With designer, Valentino
With business woman, Kris Jenner
