Latest Franca Sozzani Quotes from Interviews

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• I think that I'm still very enthusiastic about every single thing that I do. I'm still very passionate. I never feel tired because I feel so involved and so com- mitted, so I enjoy it. And you know what? I have a lot of irony. I love the humor, and when I really, really want to just say, "You know what? I can't stand all this," I find an ironical way. I say, "You know, maybe you presume to be more intelligent than you are." So I respond in a more humoristic way.

  Franca Sozzani

  Tired, Intelligent, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• For me, money is to use - it's only to use. So I never have money because I always spend. That's why in a way I protect myself in having houses. But if I had just cash or kept it in the bank, I'd spend it immediately. But not for stupid things. So I don't like to have money. I never have money in my pocket.

  Franca Sozzani

  Stupid, House, Protect

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I didn't need to get married again. It's great to be in a situation in which you're happy. But, you know, I'm not tortured by love. I'm not tortured by chagrin d'amour. I'm old now.

  Franca Sozzani

  Married, Situation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Do you know when you go to a very boring dinner and you sit down and you have the chance to talk with somebody and it's so interesting that you learn so much that night that you go back and say, "Oh, finally, I met someone who inspired me"? I love that.

  Franca Sozzani

  Night, Interesting, Chance

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I like to be risky every day, changing minds every day. I'm not reliable at all in my ideas. I can change my ideas three times a day. I change different things, the parts of the content. But I never change the content of who I am. So my challenge every day is to change and to take risks.

  Franca Sozzani

  Challenges, Risk, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Everything inspires me. It could be a movie. It could be a book. It could be a house. It could be one word - I'll think for hours and hours about one word sometimes. It could be anything.

  Franca Sozzani

  Book, Thinking, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think the future fashion will be more and more separated-like, on one side would be big distribution, and on the other side there will be high-level prêt-à-porter and couture. I mean, the prêt-à-porter is already couture in a way for the prices and the way that it's made. The big distribution will allow people to dress in a fashionable way, so this could be for everybody. This part of the big distribution will be stronger and stronger, but the other part we are coming up on is more and more rich people, because we are always thinking about Europe and about America.

  Franca Sozzani

  Fashion, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I was living in the moment that feminism came out of, and I think it's only through the work that women are doing today that they are making out better than men. So it's important that you are a feminist in your mind but that you have an attitude sometimes like men.

  Franca Sozzani

  Attitude, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think I just do what I feel is good to do. Everybody can give me their suggestions, but at the end, the final risk is mine because it's my name on the magazine. So I only do what I really feel. Everybody tries to influence you, of course: "Oh, this is the right moment to do this" and "This is the right photographer to choose," and "This is the right model to have . . ." I listen, but I must go my own way. When you take risks, it means that you know every month people are there to judge you.

  Franca Sozzani

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I thought Italian Vogue had always been considered the most experimental, avant-garde magazine. If I was going to use the same kind of language and the same kind of photos or images on the web site, it would be a disaster because Vogue has its own world, and it could be a little bit cold, you know? We don't give what you call a service.

  Franca Sozzani

  Italian, Giving, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You know, I can be very tough in my answers, and that was good for the magazine because it didn't mix focus points - it was to be extravagant, experimental, innovative. But the web site has made it more human. So the Web site is good for the magazine.

  Franca Sozzani

  Focus, Tough, Innovative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I need to protect myself from everybody. I see so many people all day, all demanding their own jobs, their own opportunities, so in a way, I make a distinction. I'm very difficult about opening myself up with people at first . . . It just takes time.

  Franca Sozzani

  Opportunity, People, Difficult

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't think when you work you have to please everybody - you make a choice. It's not like everybody who is in front of you has to become your best friend.

  Franca Sozzani

  Thinking, Choices, Your Best Friend

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Fashion is a mirror of the era in which we live. Why should the magazine be disconnected from reality? It's not like in the past.

  Franca Sozzani

  Fashion, Past, Reality

  Source: wwd.com

• The only time I was really surprised was the reaction to the [shoot dedicated to the] BP oil [spill in 2010]. I didn't expect it at all. It was for the August issue, perhaps one of the less relevant months, but there was so much buzz. It was picked up all over the American television, but I defended my position. I don't understand those that say that a magazine such as Vogue should not talk about these things.

  Franca Sozzani

  August, Oil, Issues

  Source: wwd.com

• I feel what is in the air. I go with my instinct.

  Franca Sozzani

  Air, Instinct, Feels

  Source: wwd.com

• I never program anything, I decide at the last minute.

  Franca Sozzani

  Lasts, Program, Minutes

  Source: wwd.com

• There are designers there, we have to think of production, but I am not changing Africa. But if we all do something together....We have to know our limits, I don't have the pretense I can change the world. And I don't want to set up events [to raise money]. Because what happens if the following year they don't have an event, they won't eat?

  Franca Sozzani

  Thinking, Years, Together

  Source: wwd.com

• I started entering in a series of problems I had never occupied myself with - water, production, employment. I am learning. You can do so many things. However, I don't feel guilty for living well here.

  Franca Sozzani

  Water, Employment, Entering

  Source: wwd.com

• Fashion has always been very generous. Think of what it has done for curing AIDS.

  Franca Sozzani

  Fashion, Thinking, Done

  Source: wwd.com

• I was doing the Black Issue in 2006 and then went to Africa for Uomo Vogue. I've worked with Gucci and Fendi, committed to create jobs. Fifty percent of those ads went to non-government organizations in Africa. [Nelson] Mandela was on the cover, it helped create attention.

  Franca Sozzani

  Jobs, Government, Organization

  Source: wwd.com

• You can get tired of anything, everything turns old, but I want to give people the possibility to share a Vogue party. It is up to the brands to participate to make the event interesting. I am satisfied, but it's important never to stop.

  Franca Sozzani

  Party, Tired, People

  Source: wwd.com

• I try to renew and create something new every time.

  Franca Sozzani

  Trying, Something New

  Source: wwd.com

• [Patrizio Bertelli or Gildo Zegna] are individuals who are superbusy, traveling all the time. You can't think they will have the time to attend all the meetings.

  Franca Sozzani

  Thinking, Individual, Meetings

  Source: wwd.com

• In New York there are between four and six big designers, and the shows last one week. There is something wrong here. It's our fault. We can't stand up for it. They take our ads, don't they? Why don't they want to stay longer in Milan? Why do we have to comply? We have the most beautiful brands, they are Italians.

  Franca Sozzani

  Beautiful, New York, Four

  Source: wwd.com