REAL-LIFE HERO

In July last year, Hero Fiennes Tiffin was waiting backstage at Florence’s Palazzo Della Signoria for Salvatore Ferragamo’s spring/summer 2020 menswear show to start. Set among the square’s bold stone arches, columns and frescos – which counts among its many sculptures a 16th-century reproduction of Michelangelo’s ‘David’ – the event was a celebration of Italian grandeur that now feels as if it could have taken place not just in a different year, but an entirely different universe. A lot has changed.

And a lot has changed for Fiennes Tiffin, too. Emerging as the final look before