Mette-Marit in mourning after a close friend died – VG

The Italian Vogue editor Franca Sozzani died Thursday after a long period of struggle against the disease.

– Kronprinsessen has received the message with great sadness, and she feels with Francas immediate family in their grief, ” says Sven Gjeruld Gjeruldsen, assistant head of communication at the Castle of the VG.

Sozzani and Mette-Marit met each other at common friends in Paris at the beginning of the 2000s, and has since been close friends.

Franca Sozzani was the chief of Italian Vogue, and was considered as one of the moteverdenens most powerful. The legendary Vogue boss has known kronprinsessen in a number of years, and the two shared, among other things, a great interest for Italian fashion.

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Mutual respect

Franca Sozzani has been a legendary editor of Italian Vogue in a number of years. Here at home, she is perhaps best known as a close friend of crown princess Mette-Marit. And the two have really been close and visited each other privately in the Uk and in Italy, ” says Tv2 kongeekspert Kjell Arne Totland to VG.

The two, among others, together in the Italian Portofino in 2014. Then wrote the Italian moteguruen “So nice to spend time with a very good friend” on his Instagram profile.

In 2011, Sozzani an obvious guest in the crown prince bryllupsdagsfeiring in Oslo, where the powerful Vogue editor was awarded perhaps the most prestigious space on the other benkerad, right behind the crown princess Mette-Marit.

– Yes, we are girlfriends. And we have a mutual respect for each other, something that is very important, the base for a friendship. We have both a commitment to and an interest for fashion. But visit my in Oslo was not of public but of a private character, ” said Sozzani to VG at the time.

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joined to Kristiansand

She was also taken to the crown princess Mette-On barndomsby Kristiansand and the archipelago outside – on a two-day excursion in the occasion the celebration 25. august.

This was my first visit in Oslo and I must say I have never experienced the like, to landscapes anywhere in the world. I have always had an idea about how Norway was going to be, but it surprised me and impressed me in a way I had never could imagine, ” said Vogue editor to the VG in 2011.

During the Sozzanis redaktørtid in Vogue marked the magazine with many prominent photographers. Among those who built up their careers under Sozzani is Bruce Weber, Peter Lindbergh, Ellen von Unwerth and Paolo Roversi.

Sozzani has in many ways been a mentor for our young crown princess and introduced her to her friends in the fashion business. The royal couple was, among other hedersgjester when the film about the Italian motedronningen had its world premiere in Venice just a few months ago, ” says Totland.

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