In this collection, the lightness, the lack of obvious structure, the way a cardigan might be layered casually over a jacket implied freedom from restrictions of all kinds. And that's the kind of reinvention many men would crave.

The one potential quibble is that the offering might have been a bit too tried-and-true; this wasn't a season marked by change. But perhaps that's just how Reid needs it to be right now, given that plenty of the visitors dropping in are playing catch-up to his work.

A great-grandfather who'd been a British Royal Navy man in World War II gave the Fayed and Goncalves Brothers, the synod of families that run Bespoken, the inspiration for their latest outing.

The presentations that Scott Sternberg has staged for Band of Outsiders are legendary by now—there was the time he created an actual beach, replete with water and sand, for instance—so it was inevitable he'd bring a little stagecraft to his first-ever runway show.

The concept of the remix has been at the heart of pop culture for years, but Giorgio Armani invoked it today to describe a collection that consolidated the designer's classics with an updated twist here and there.