It's 20 minutes before her fashion show is due to start at the Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo and Francesca Versace is giving a very slight, nervous bite to her lower lip.
"There's something I wanted to tell you," she says. "Yesterday, when we met, I think I talked too much about my family."
For the daughter of Santo Versace, the businessman who founded the Versace label in 1978 with his more famous younger brother, Gianni, and who has continued to operate it with his younger sister Donatella since Gianni's murder 10 years ago, being asked to talk about the family is a daily, if not entirely welcome, occurrence.