There is a new addition to the 2025 gala calendar: This November in Doha, filmmaker and photographer Francesco Carrozzini, Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani, and Anna Wintour, global editorial director of Vogue and chief content officer of Condé Nast, will host the inaugural Franca Fund Gala—a fundraiser to support ongoing preventative genomics research in honor of Carrozzini’s late mother, longtime Italian Vogue editor Franca Sozzani.

“The bond I had with my mom—and her being a single mother for most of her life and then going so early—really made me want to do something to remember her,” Carrozzini tells Vogue , adding that his mother’s diagnosis of a rare lung cancer led him to the work of Harvard medical geneticist Dr. Robert E. Green, in hopes of finding her

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