The Inaugural Franca Fund Gala will take place this November in Doha

There is a new addition to the calendar of the 2025 gala: in November in Doha, filmmaker and photographer Francesco Carrozzini, His Excellence Sheikha Al Mayassa Bint Hamad Al-Thani, and Anna Wintour, world editorial director of Vogue And the Content Director of Condé Nast, will welcome the first gala of the French Fund – a fundraising to support research in preventive genomic in progress in honor of the deceased mother of Carrozzini, a long -standing Italian Vogue Editor French Sozzani.

“The link I had with my mother – and she is a single mother for most of her life and then so soon – really made me want to do something to remember her,” says Carrozzini VogueAdding that the diagnosis of his mother of a rare lung cancer led him to the work of Harvard’s medical geneticist, Dr. Robert E. Green, in the hope of finding her a remedy. That Sozzani’s disease was too advanced to be successfully treated, and she died at the end of 2016, prompted Carrozzini to establish The French fund for preventive genomicsAlongside Green and the DA Wallch artist and investor. The initiative supports genetic research to identify, treat and prevent a myriad of diseases – from minor diseases to deadly diseases.

Since its launch in 2018 at the Harvard Medical School and Général de Masse Brigham, the fund has collected funds thanks to the exhibition and the sale of parts of the Sozzani wardrobe; A zara collection of t-shirts and sweatshirts featuring photos of Peter Lindbergh; And a prize -giving dinner that honored Julianne Moore, Salma Hayek and Iman. However, Carrozzini often found himself thinking: “It’s not enough, we need something bigger,” he said. Enter the French Gala Fund, which was designed in collaboration with Sheikha Al Mayassa.

“I was trying to do something with someone who understood the values ​​of my mother and what she did for the arts and for fashion,” says Carrozzini, noting that before her death, Sozzani has become friends with Sheikha Al Mayassa through these shared interests. The president of the Qatar museums and co -president of Fashion Trust Arabia, Sheikha Al Mayassa, “kindly offered to welcome” the Gala of the French Fund, adds Carrozzini.

The evening will take place in collaboration with Qatari Cultural Center M7, a hub for innovation and entrepreneurship through design, fashion and technology. Additional details concerning the guest list, the place, the dress code and entertainment are to come, but the mission, says Carrozzini, is already clear: “Promoting research and honoring someone that so many people thought it was special.”