"Here’s what I think: fashion isn’t really about clothes. It's about life...We can’t always be writing about flowers and lace and aquamarine."

- Franca Sozzani [1], Editor-in-Chief of Italian Vogue, and its special issues that uses fashion and fashion imagery to draw attention to social, political, and environmental issues. Ms. Sozzani is also the goodwill ambassador for Fashion 4 Development [2] (an organization linked to the UN).

As quoted in the Financial Times, May 31, 2013, Lunch with the FT: Franca Sozzani [3], by Vanessa Friedman
Photo Credit: kekkoz [4]

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