Peek Inside the Legendary Fashion Archive Carla Sozzani Built Over 50 Years

After a career editing magazines and styling with a who’s who of photography greats, she founded one of Italy’s most influential fashion and design boutiques, 10 Corso Como, before creating her own gallery and then art foundation. Along the way, Sozzani amassed more than 600 works of photography and some 6,000 garments.

“I never set out to be a collector. I was passionate and I started keeping, keeping, and keeping. Then, after 50 years, I realized it had become a collection!” she laughs over coffee in the Alaïa Foundation in Paris, where the exhibition Azzedine Alaïa and Christian Dior, Two Masters of Haute Couture is b...