She signed it on the Wednesday morning in Elena Veneri's office on the sixth floor with a pen that was worth more than her machine.
Elena Veneri is fifty-eight and has run the business side of Maison Veneri since 2009 and has never been photographed, and she has an office with nothing in it: a table, four chairs, a window, and one framed thing on the wall which is not a fashion photograph, it is a share certificate from 1934.