Vanni

Carla Vanni. Italian journalist. The editor-in-chief of Grazia, a historic women’s weekly published by Mondadori. Born in Livorno, she took a degree in law, married, with two children: the boy became a lawyer, the girl an architect. She began working at Grazia in 1959 as a young editor and, through hard work and great dedication, she became managing editor and, in 1978, editor-in-chief, replacing Renato Olivieri. A woman of wide-ranging interests, she was especially attentive to all the cultural and lifestlye phenomena and issues of modern living; she noted them, expanded upon them, and commented upon them in Grazia, which was considered one of the most respected and closely read women’s weeklies in Italy, in terms of quality, accuracy, reliability, and elegance of graphics and image, in continuous evolution. In over twenty years as editor-in-chief, she succeeded in allowing the magazine to evolve without revolutionary changes, in a contemporary and highly qualified context, both personal and highly distinctive. She became the editorial director of women’s publications for Mondadori in 1987, and she worked hard to ensure the success of other publications as well.