Season in Milan largely out of focus

Milan

IT was 9.30 am on Saturday, the Bottega Veneta show was about to start, and François-Henri Pinault, chief executive of Kering, the French conglomerate that owns the Italian brand, was het up.

Were the models late? Had some clothes not arrived? Did he - oops - not like what he saw?

Nope. His morning had been ruined because of the news that President Donald Trump's administration was changing the federal government's policy on sexual assault on campus, potentially allowing colleges to raise the standard of proof required, a decision widely seen as altering the balance of power towards the colleges and away from the victims.

Kering has a women's foundation that had done a lot of work on the issue, and he couldn't believe what he had read. He was wondering if there was a way they could protest the decision. Between that and the Mexico City earthquake (his wife, Salm…