What is Franca Sozzani?
[[File:Sozzani cropped.jpg|thumb|Life Ball 2013 - magenta carpet Franca Sozzani]] '''Franca Sozzani''' (20 January 1950 &ndash; 22 December 2016) was an [[Italians|Italian]] [[journalist]]. She was the [[editor-in-chief]] of ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue Italia]]'' from 1988 until her death in 2016. She was born in [[Mantua]]. Her son, [[Francesco Carrozzini]] (born 1982), is a director and photographer. Sozzani died after a long illness on 22 December 2016 in [[Milan]]. She was 66.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/fashion/franca-sozzani-dead-italian-vogue.html|title=Franca Sozzani Dies at 66; Gave Italian Vogue a Daring Look and Voice|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=22 December 2016|access-date=16 January 2017}}</ref> ==References== {{Commons category}} {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sozzani, Franca}} [[Category:1950 births]] [[Category:2016 deaths]] [[Category:Disease-related deaths in Italy]] [[Category:Italian writers]] [[Category:Italian journalists]] [[Category:People from Mantua]] {{Bio-stub}}