MILAN — Difficult times can lead to outbursts of folie or a definitive affirmation of reason. It was the latter that ruled over the Milan men’s fashion week that closed on Monday: a very rational, very efficient, very product-centred season full of perfectly fine if largely flavourless clothes. It was less a celebration of normality than an exaltation of rigour, simplicity and purity.
To put it in Mrs Prada words: “In serious moments,…