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Franca Sozzani was born on 20 January, 1950 in Mantua, Italy, is an Italian journalist (1950–2016). Discover Franca Sozzani's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?
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Magazine editor |
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66 years old |
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Capricorn |
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20 January 1950 |
Birthday |
20 January |
Birthplace |
Mantua, Italy |
Date of death |
22 December, 2016 |
Died Place |
Milan, Italy |
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Ytaly
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Franca Sozzani Height, Weight & Measurements
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She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Francesco Carrozzini |
Franca Sozzani Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Franca Sozzani worth at the age of 66 years old? Franca Sozzani’s income source is mostly from being a successful editor. She is from Ytaly. We have estimated Franca Sozzani's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Franca Sozzani (20 January 1950 – 22 December 2016) was an Italian journalist and the editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia from 1988 until her death in 2016.
Sozzani was born and grew up in Mantua, Lombardy, northern Italy.
She studied Germanic languages and literature and philosophy at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, graduating in 1973.
She married at the age of 20; the union was dissolved three months later.
Sozzani's career began as an assistant at the children's fashion magazine Vogue Bambini in 1976.
She directed the publications Lei beginning in 1980 and Per Lui starting in 1982 before heading up Vogue Italia in 1988.
Her sister, Carla Sozzani, is the owner of 10 Corso Como, a Milan photography gallery and store.
Sozzani's niece, Sara Maino, is an editor at Italian Vogue.
In the 1990s, Sozzani helped create the phenomenon of the supermodel with one of her closest long-term collaborators, Steven Meisel.
She also championed a group of photographers including Bruce Weber, Peter Lindbergh, and Paolo Roversi, Michel Comte giving them complete freedom to choose models and subjects, and encouraging them to experiment with their work.
She was appointed editor-in-chief of Condé Nast Italia in 1994.
In 2006, she became editor of Vogue l'Uomo and in February 2011, she launched Vogue Curvy, staffed by plus-size bloggers who offer fashion tips for the full-figured.
In 2010, Sozzani published a selection of her blog posts from the "Editor's Notes" pages of Vogue.it as a book, I capricci della moda.
As well as her editorial writing, Sozzani also wrote photography and art books among them "British Artists at Work" with photographer Amanda Eliasch.
Sozzani provided text for exhibition catalogues, often collaborating with other writers, journalists and artists on publications.
Sozzani was known for including topics and issues in her magazine which other fashion publications avoided, such as domestic violence, drug abuse and recovery, and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill of 2010.
Issues of her magazine included "The Black Issue" (which featured only models of colour), "Makeover" (discussing plastic surgery) and "Rebranding Africa".
She also curated several exhibitions and retrospectives, including: 30 Years of Italian Vogue (Mario Testino), Vietnam Story and My Own Story in Vogue (Bruce Weber), Women (Peter Lindbergh), and Portraits of Elegance (Milan Triennale), as well as Francesco Scavullo.
In 2012, Sozzani was awarded the Legion of Honour by French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
The same year she became a United Nations Goodwill ambassador.
In addition, she worked with the AIDS organisation Convivo and from March 2013 she was the president of the European Institute of Oncology Foundation.
In 2014, she was named a global ambassador against hunger for the United Nations’ World Food Programme and received the Swarovski Fashion Award for Positive Change in 2016.
Sozzani contributed to a number of charitable organisations.
She 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.
In September 2015, she took over editorship of Vogue Sposa and Vogue Bambini.
Sozzani died of lung cancer on 22 December 2016, at the age of 66.
A Catholic memorial service was held for Sozzani on 17 February 2017 in Milan.