It was a sultry August afternoon in 1993 and Irish fashion czar Ian Galvin and I were pitched up in the offices of Vogue House in Hanover Square, London. We were there to meet the recently appointed editor Alexandra Shulman and to convince her to do an interview and a photo shoot with rock icon Marianne Faithfull who at that time was living in Ireland. This was to be no ordinary interview and photo shoot. It was Ian’s idea to launch an Aids research fundraiser, inspired by amfAR, the world-changing Aids advocacy and research organisation set up by Elizabeth Taylor,…

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