![]() I don’t have the desire to show myself to the world. I was actually reluctant to present myself like this to the public. I would never have done it for someone else. When asked whether she would have agreed to do the project with a different director, Sozzani confessed: “Never. She wouldn’t have done it for anyone else. Now she was speaking to the whole world about her. She had managed to speak to the whole world through the images in her magazine. This film, which took 4 years to complete, is as much a testament to her legacy as it is an act of love,” Francesco Carrozzini revealed.Īnd I finally found that emotional and personal touch I was hoping to find when all those tributes to Franca started pouring in. I wanted to understand the choices she had made throughout her personal life, but also gain insight into her work in the fashion world and share the story of her groundbreaking career. ![]() Seeking a deeper level of connection, I turned my camera on her as a means of exploring our relationship in a new way and also to confront the questions I had never asked before. ![]() “When my father died, I realized my mother was all I had left. Movie still from “Franca: Chaos and Creation” | Disarming Films “The only true love is the one you have for your child,” Franca says in the film. A love letter from a child to his mother. She only opened up in front of her son, who after having lost his father five years before, wanted to spend more time with his mother and capture her on film just for himself. She had managed to keep a sense of mystery around her in an industry that was more and more shaped by fame-seeking editors who gave it a bad reputation by putting themselves in the spotlight and by showing the stupid and frivolous side of fashion. Because Franca Sozzani was a very private person. But then I realised I shouldn’t expect a more intimate portrayal of her in the press. I already knew all that and that was why I had been buying Vogue Italia religiously for years (unlike any other Vogue or fashion magazine). I wasn’t interested in reading how she revolutionised fashion, or how she transformed the Italian Vogue from a catalogue of brands to the most influential fashion magazine in the world with a strong cultural and social point of view, or about her controversial issues that often lead to criticism because they did not fit the system and the image of a brand. I remember the time after her passing away in 2016, how everything written about her lacked emotion. The film Franca: Chaos and Creation is the only portrait of the legendary editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia that I have ever cared to watch/read. The book follows the documentary by the same name from 2016, directed by Franca’s son, Francesco Carrozzini. “Franca: Chaos and Creation” | Disarming Filmsįranca: Chaos and Creation, the book, celebrating the life and work of Franca Sozzani, was recently released by Assouline. Franca Sozzani and her son, Francesco Carrozzini
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