In the Ottoman Empire during the early 1900s existed the figure of the Pasha. This was the title given to the highest rank of military or civil officials in Istanbul and was placed after the person’s name.  They were extremely affluent and lived a life of outrageous luxury that in the West became synonymous of living like a Lord.  To live like a Pasha was the dream and a fashionable, playful wish also in Milan in 1905, where an eighteen-year-old by the name of Paolo Carati arrived one day with the idea in mind of doing business as a salesman...