The comfortable, colourful salon-studio

As a child in the 1980s, I remember the elegance of that time – a real boom era for fashion. And, of course, I remember later the shock of Maurizio’s murder in 1995. What shaped your love of art? “My forebears lost so much, but one of my grandmothers managed to save some treasures – a few of Ivan Shishkin’s romantic Russian landscapes and a Fabergé pheasant. “And as a child, I was lucky enough to spend time with my great-aunt Carmen Gronau, who for many years ran the Old Master Painting departme...