I can’t help but wonder now, if the world’s fashpeople absolutely need someone to aim all their critics at, just because. And if that someone is editor in chief of any Vogue magazine, all the best!
Since Carine Roitfeld has left the French Vogue, Anna Wintour was the only one leading the Vogue pack, alone in this invisible, cold fashion war. Whatever, whoever she puts on her Vogue’s cover, there will always be fashpeople who’ll feel betrayed, disappointed. Fashpeople, behold! There comes Franca Sozzani! The editor in chief of Vogue Italy comes to Anna’s rescue (not that she needed any backing, but hey, fashpower girls have to stay united!) and keeps the press busy, busy busy with her beliefs and declarations. I love her! If anything, she’s almost as longstanding managing Vogue as Anna, also above the trends by following a unique, personal and highly recognizable style. And, most importantly, she likes raising pulses with her magazine!
If you ask me, I think she’s a genius. At least as far as leading a Vogue magazine can imply. Fully aware that she is and will always be quoted, that this particular phrase will be picked up and turned round, Franca Sozzani went ahead with launching another war and said: (just to be clear, here’s what you was “officially” described as a fashionista by Wikipedia and the Urban dictionary)
Sometimes I say I think elegance is very boring, or I hate fashionistas. […] It’s not that I wake up and say, “I hate fashionistas.” But I do hate fashionistas.
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