With four new designers at important Milan brands and a celebration of the late Giorgio Armani ’s 50-year career, the generational change that has long been discussed finally arrived in Milan Fashion Week. We may have even gotten the more elusive vibe shift we’ve all been longing for in Dario Vitale ’s gutsy Versace debut. I heard it compared it to Alessandro Michele’s own agenda-setting first collection at Gucci 10 years ago. There were naysayers, too, but the confidence with which Vitale mixed vintage Gianni Versace references and the way he swapped airbrushed perfection for real-world rawness certainly got the kids sitting up and paying attention, and that counts for a lot.

“There is a willingness to push for what feels authentic, what people really want—looks for the street, n

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