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FRANCA CHAOS AND CREATION

“When my father passed away, I realized that my mother was all that was left to me. Wanting to establish a deeper connection, I turned the camera on her
and I used it as a means to explore our relationship, in a new way, and to give voice to the questions that I had never done before”, says Francesco Carrozzini
- a career between Los Angeles and New York focuses on interviews portraits of influential personalities, made with cinematic style - who at the 73rd Venice
International Film Festival has unveiled his “Franca Chaos and Creation”. A film that would not taste the same if the director in question wouldn’t spiced it
with maternal love, putting himself behind the camera with a precise intention: “I took the camera, I took my mother to Central Park and I began to interview
her. There was no way to go back. I knew I had to tell her story because she is my mother, for no other reason”. And in fact the film is savored like a beautiful
love letter from a son to his mother, but there’s more. “I wanted to understand her personal choices, have a privileged access to the world of fashion through
her experience and share the most important moments of her revolutionary career”, continues Carrozzini, since it goes out to the laymen, that the mother in
question is Franca Sozzani, since 1988 editor-in-chief of a fashion bible such as Vogue Italia. And here the film story gets interesting, making use of co-stars
likes Karl Lagerfeld, Donatella Versace and Naomi Campbell together with Bruce Weber, Baz Luhrmann and Courtney Love, among the others, who in the
video outline the character of the strong director who on her pages has not failed to break the rules, talking sometimes of issues considered off-limits, but
well-rooted in that contemporary world which undoubtedly is her forte. “Why can’t I talk about it? Why a fashion magazine can’t talk about what happens
in the world?” Questions in front of the camera Franca Sozzani, proud that she had put her name on the famous Vogue “Black Issue” bringing to the fore
designers, models, stars , artists and photographers, interpreters of the black culture in the fashion world. “They have always talked a lot about the difficulty
of fashion to chose colored models. Many have complained, but no one ever did anything. Producing this special issue, Franca has canceled all the excuses”.
Says Valerie Steele. Because in the end, tells the fashion editor Suzy Menkes: “Vogue Italia, in some way, is a style leader. All the Vogue magazines are very
strong, but Vogue Italia has always chosen images to the limit and this is the true meaning of fashion”. And Franca Sozzani can only confirm this:” Yes, I am
a winner! Not because I’m pretentious, but because all my ideas have been successful”.

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