She also championed a group of photographers including Bruce Weber, Peter Lindbergh, and Paolo Roversi, Michel Comte giving them complete freedom to choose models and subjects, and encouraging them to experiment with their work.

[1] In 2010, Sozzani published a selection of her blog posts from the "Editor's Notes" pages of Vogue.it as a book, I capricci della moda.

[5] As well as her editorial writing, Sozzani also wrote photography and art books among them "British Artists at Work" with photographer Amanda Eliasch.

[9] Sozzani was known for including topics and issues in her magazine which other fashion publications avoided, such as domestic violence, drug abuse and recovery, and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill of 2010.

[13] In 2014, she was named a global ambassador against hunger for the United Nations’ World Food Programme[1] and received the Swarovski Fashion Award for Positive Change in 2016.

She was a founding member of Child Priority – a non-profit organization created by Condé Nast to offer concrete study and work opportunities for those who have none despite being talented and artistically gifted.