Anna dello Russo, Street-Style Star, Decides to Move On<br />“We’re still in the transition phase, but the next generation should appreciate visibility is not the only route to success.”<br />Born in Bari, Italy, in 1962, Ms. dello Russo spent 18 years at Condé Nast Italia, as fashion editor at Vogue Italia and editing L’Uomo Vogue.<br />At 55, she’s jettisoning the spoils of her internet age: selling some of her clothes<br />and taking the first steps toward killing off her digital alter ego, A.d. R.<br />On Saturday, Christie’s is to auction 30 of what the editor described as her most iconic outfits — by the likes of Gianni Versace, Tom Ford<br />for Gucci, Nicolas Ghesquière for Balenciaga — during an invitation-only event at a palazzo on the Corso di Porta Romana in Milan.<br />In 2009 she started a blog and a new position as creative editor at large with Vogue Japan, and A.d. R.<br />“I realized I could work in a different way,” Ms. dello Russo said.<br />She’s crazy about fashion, but she’s not crazy.”<br />Still, Ms. dello Russo admits she spent “crazy amounts of money” on designer clothing<br />over the years and, at one point, filled the apartment next door with her clothes.<br />My clothes were my books, my alphabet.”<br />She already has given away and donated some of her clothes, as a way of working through her grief over the loss of her mentors: Manuela Pavesi, the stylist, photographer<br />and Miuccia Prada collaborator, who died in 2015; and Franca Sozzani, the longtime editor of Italian Vogue, who died in December 2016
