Any colour will do – as long as it’s green

The man who gave us his United Colours, who revolutionised the Italian fashion business, who made our brains hurt by yoking cheap and cheerful knitwear with images of Aids, prisoners on death row and babies trailing umbilical cords, has built the ship of his dreams.

The boat is called Trib, and it is a 50m-long revolution: the first luxury yacht built to the same standards of environmental purity as the latest generation of cruise liners and cargo ships.