At Prada and Zegna, designers did what they do best — retrenched, regrouped, and made clothes strong enough to captivate

From my vantage point, one admittedly muddled by some 4,000-odd miles of choppy Atlantic — that’s approximately 6,500 km, for those metric-leaning folk — Milan Menswear Fashion Week seemed to almost comically portended the classic idiom of never judging a book by its cover.