She refused to make women suffer in heavy, stiff and "painful" clothing by bravely challenging the oppressive fashion trends of her day.
She designed elegant but comfortable mulberry silk dresses also conquering "royal" clients such as the princesses of the House of Savoy and the Tsarina Catherine the Great.
Google celebrates women with a Doodle dedicated to the 306th anniversary of the birth of Donna Francesca Sanna Sulis, known as "the lady of the mulberries", a courageous and nonconformist Sardinian designer of the 18th century.
Born in 1716 in a small village in southern Sardinia, she grew up on the family farm and learned how to run a business.
She married at 19 and with her husband moved to the family business dedicated to the cultivation of mulberries.
Soon, Francesca found herself overseeing the entire silk production chain: from making sure the worms had enough mulberry leaves to feed on, to extracting silk threads from cocoons.
When she took over the business, she invested in modern looms and transformed the estate into a state-of-the-art silk production site for the time.
She did not know that her business would revolutionize the entire fashion industry as women who did not wear traditional clothes risked being marginalized.
But it was not only this: he also dedicated himself to empowering the women of his community.
He ran a vocational school that taught hundreds of women the lucrative arts of spinning, weaving, tailoring, and even botany.
After completing the courses, the women received a free frame and a chance to achieve financial independence.
Today her historical dresses can be found on display at the Donna Francesca Sanna Sulis Museum in Muravera and at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, where there is a portrait of Catherine the Great who wore one of her dresses.