Anticipation for Louise Trotter’s debut as Bottega Veneta creative director yesterday evening was electric, as the fashion-insider favorite and veteran of Joseph, Lacoste, and Carven ascended to a global stage. Outside Fabbrica Orobia in Milan, cheering K-pop fans lined the street, eager for a glimpse of BTS’s RM, Stray Kids’ I.N, and Meovv’s Sooin. Inside, the late-afternoon sun sparkled on colorful Murano glass stools, name cards suggesting a rare celestial alignment of three Academy Award winners—Julianne Moore, Michelle Yeoh, and Uma Thurman—within a former zinc factory near Fondazione Prada. Lauren Hutton swanned in with the same Intrecciato clutch as carried more than four decades ago in American Gigolo. And even the inimitably chic Zadie Smith, who only attends fashion shows every

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