EMILIO Pucci wasn’t expected to earn a living. Born into Florentine nobility in 1914, Pucci liked to boast that he became the first person in his family to “work” for 1,000 years.

"I saw some images of Emilio Pucci in the archives doing the limbo with his friends, I thought, OK - we have to do a limbo." And what better occasion than at a Fun Fair on the eve of Art Basel ...