In 2019, on the occasion of the third anniversary of Franca Sozzani's death, her son, Francesco Carrozzini, and granddaughter, Sara Sozzani Maino, donated 2,400 volumes, mainly about photography, costume history, fashion, painting and art history, to IED and the Costume & Fashion Academy of Rome. Of these books, 1,177 are preserved at the "Franca Sozzani" Fashion Reading Room in Milan and are available for students and researchers.
Divided by subject, the volumes are placed in special shelving in a dedicated space to preserve the unity of the collection. Lending prestige to the collection are a fair number of dedications by leading fashion designers and photographers, and a small archive of inserts found inside the specimens and testifying to the relationships and context, both personal and professional, in which Sozzani worked. The collection is also enriched by a small selection of objects and awards received by Sozzani during her activity as editor of
Vogue Italia, which are displayed on a shelf at the end of the sections.
The volumes in the collection are excluded from lending and can only be viewed on site by request or reservation.
You can browse the collection via this link to our catalog:
https://ied.infoteca.it/fondo-sozzani.
Biographical note
Franca Sozzani was born in Mantua on January 20th 1950. She graduated at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Literature and Philosophy with a thesis in Germanic Philology. Even earlier than her graduation, she had begun working for Vogue Bambini as an assistant. Creativity and talent, as well as nonconformism and visionariness, allowed her to quickly move up the ladder: she became editor of Vogue in 1988, a position she held for 28 years until her death. In 1994, she also became the editorial director of Condé Nast Italia, and since the October 2006 issue she was editor in chief of L'Uomo Vogue. In 2010 she launched the Vogue Italia website, the magazine's first online portal, and in 2015 she was put in charge of all Italian-language publications issued under the Vogue brand.
On December 22nd 2016, Franca Sozzani, aged 66, died in Milan following a long illness. Her son Francesco Carrozzini, a photographer and film director, dedicated a documentary to her, which was shown at the Venice Film Festival in 2015.
You can find both Carrozzini's film and the book
Franca : chaos and creation at the Fashion Reading Room.