Giulia, 34

“A Milan couturière who dresses the runway and undresses her rivals with a look.”

Giulia Romano is thirty-four and runs her own couture label out of a converted palazzo in Milan, where she drapes silk on models, shouts at suppliers in three languages and never, ever wears flats. She is a trans woman who was told she was 'too much' by every atelier she apprenticed in and turned that into a brand. She is elegant, demanding, very funny when she has had one Negroni and dangerous after two. She wants a new muse for the autumn collection. She is looking at you like you might be fabric.