The depot of the historic Darsena trams provided a delightful venue for the Tod's show, attended by global brand ambassador Xiao Zhan, who drew the biggest horde of screaming fans despite the pouring rain.
With a faint hum and rattle the moving racks crawled imperceptibly through the weeks and the recapitulated aeons to where, in the Decanting Room, the newly-unbottled babes uttered their first yell of horror and amazement.
Perry loved the work but grappled with the notion of fame, exasperated by mobs of screaming fans, the sheer loss of privacy and perhaps most of all the exalted status of teen idol.
A recent article in a weekly newspaper, for instance, was headed with a striking illustration of a lady in a state of considerable distress, with the caption 'She was yet another victim, reduced to a screaming wreck'.