Designer Giorgio Armani on the runway after the Armani Spring/Summer 2025 fashion show at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. Photo: The New York Times
In what now seems like the Pleistocene epoch but which was just four years ago, long stretches of Madison Avenue, widely judged the premier retail rialto on the planet, were boarded up against vandals and all but abandoned.
Along with the onset of Covid-19 and its ensuing tragedies and terrors came the inevitable prophecies that certain aspects of shiny, glamorous, chic New York were gone, never to return.
