Emanuele Farneti, editor of Italian Vogue, on succeeding Franca Sozzani and the state of the magazine industry

Tuesday, 07 November 2017

Emanuele Farneti, the recently appointed 43-year-old editor of Italian Vogue apologises profusely for being late, ruing that he didn’t ride his trusty old Suzuki motorcycle, but was instead chauffeured in one of those black limos all fashion VIPs take during fashion month. He wasn’t even diva late. Besides, it gave me time to explore the offices of Italian Vogue which are empty – it’s Saturday, but still – and smaller, cosier and more cluttered than I’d expected. A corridor is lined with framed images from the past 53 years of the magazine’s history. “Some people said I should get rid of them and start afresh,” he says. “But why would I want to erase all of Italian Vogue’s history?’

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