“My eyesight is not so good,” she lobbed back. “I didn’t want to miss.

Understandably then, when I try to find her, Reggiani’s inner circle doesn’t seem keen to
let her near another journalist. “She’s not here. She’s off work with a bad back,” says
Alessandra Brunero, co-owner of Bozart, a Milanese costume jewellery firm that has
employed Reggiani as a “design consultant” since April 2014.