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CFDA to honour Franca Sozzani and Rick Owens

The CFDA Fashion Awards in New York will salute two of the industry's pioneers of the community: the late Franca Sozzani and designer Rick Owens. Former Vogue editor Sozzani died in 2016, but will be honoured with a posthumous Fashion Icon Award. Owens, who is American but based in Paris, will receive the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award....

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Sisters Aren’t Doing it for Themselves; Women out at Vogue

Eminently qualified for the editorship of British Vogue, Edward Enninful will take up the position when current editor Alexandra Shulman leaves in June. Having met him, I would add that he’s a terrific person too. The industrywide goodwill towards him speaks to his character and talent. The New York Times called this “a barrier-breaking choice”...

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Reflecting On The Impact of Fashion’s Fallen of 2016

2016 has been strewn with big losses across all industries and fashion has certainly not been spared. But this is not an In Memoriam so much as an In Appreciation piece. We’re choosing to focus on our gains over our losses; on the endeavors and achievements of these dynamic individuals who are no longer with us but who have left something...

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The world's fashion community pays tribute to Franca Sozzani

Luminaries from the international fashion community are sending their tributes to Franca Sozzani, the celebrated Italian Vogue editor in chief who suddenly passed away on 22 December after an undisclosed illness. Giorgio Armani "No one has been able to reinvent reality like Franca Sozzani has, illustrating it regularly in a tasteful and creative...

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Vogue Italia editor Franca Sozzani has died

Franca Sozzani, the editor of Vogue Italia, passed away on Thursday in Milan at the age of 66 years-old, after battling a year-long illness, according to a letter from Jonathan Newhouse, chairman and chief executive of Condé Nast. "This is the saddest news I have ever had to report to you," begins the letter posted to Vogue Italia's website....

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Franca Sozzani to be honoured at The Fashion Awards

The British Fashion Council has announced that editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia and L’Uomo Vogue Franca Sozzani will receive the new Swarovski Award for Positive Change at The Fashion Awards in December. The new award aims to recognise individuals who promote the welfare of others to achieve change and positive impact to good causes, and the...