Sara Sozzani Maino

Creative director of the Sozzani Foundation. Sara Sozzani Maino collaborates with many educational institutions and serves on several boards working and creating awareness for a more responsible planet. Maino joined the advisory board for the Circular Fashion Summit. The summit is a a global collective action summit, supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030. To date, she is a Creative advisor for CNCC (Conde Nast Commercial Creative), dealing with the conception and proposition of multi-platform projects for the Condé Nast Italia brands. She founded Vogue Talents with Franca Sozzani in 2009. Vogue Talents has been a worldwide project and network supporting independent creative talent. In collaboration with Altaroma, she curates, since 2005, the Who is on Next? competition in support of Made in Italy. She regularly attends as a judge and consultant in several fashion competitions, including LVMH Prize, the Woolmark Prize, Fashion Trust Arabia, International Talent Support (ITS) and many others. Since September 2018, she has been International Brand Ambassador of the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana in support of the new generation of designers. She is also part of Camera Fashion Trust founded in 2018 in support of made in Italy designers. In 2019 she launched A New Awareness, a project that aims to create more awareness and consciousness to the younger generation. Since 2020 she has been senior advisor of Bidayat, a multidimensional platform that aims to enhance the creative ecosystem. In May 2021 she received the Positive Change Award from Monte Carlo Fashion Week.