Vintage view: Piero Fornasetti, engraver, artist and designer

Lina Cavalieri (1875-1944) or the ‘Kissing Prima Donna’ began her career as a street chanteuse in her early teens.

Her face was a lush damask rose — huge dark eyes, full lips and a perfectly patrician chin. Her tiny waistline was the talk of a generation of women splintering ribs in bone corseting to replicate her look.