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EDITOR IN CHIEF OF ITALIAN VOGUE, FRANCA SOZZANI DIES AT 66

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The Editor in Chief of Italian Vogue, Franca Sozzani is dead. Franca, an ageless 66, was born in Mantua. She studied literature and philosophy at university in Milan.


She stumbled into a job at Vogue Bambini (as “assistant to the assistant to the assistant,” as she playfully remembered). By 1980, she landed the editorship of Lei, aimed at young women, with Per Lui, its male counterpart, following in 1982.

Franca became an indispensable part of the Italian fashion scene, a shrewd power broker with an unequaled reach to its designers and the manufacturers and industrialists who keep the industry’s wheels turning. 

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In 1988, she was appointed Editor in Chief of Italian Vogue. By 1994, she was made Editor in Chief of Italian Condé Nast, enjoying great support from Jonathan Newhouse, the chairman of Condé Nast International.

Franca immediately shook up the formulaic title with dynamic covers and content, creating a magazine that, in her words, would be “extravagant, experimental, innovative.

She turned Italian Vogue into a magazine powerhouse with a reach and influence far beyond its relatively modest circulation.

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