“Fashion is change. Fashion is about what’s next,” said Michael Kors during an interview Monday morning about his new fall 2018 campaigns, for which he had to embrace that mantra. In January, The New York Times’ explosive report on allegations of sexual misconduct against Bruce Weber, Mario Testino and others brought a swift end to many of their long-term professional relationships. The day the Times story broke, Michael Kors issued a statement severing ties with Testino, who had exclusively shot the company’s campaigns for more than a decade. It forced Kors to take a beat, reflect on and tweak his creative marketing vision. Without budging from the jet-set identity he’s forged many years over, Kors made significant behind-the-scenes adjustments, filling Testino’s shoes with not one but three photographers — Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin for Michael Kors Collection and Lachlan Bailey for Michael Michael Kors. On the surface, the campaign images capture a modern, slightly less glossy, more real (for private plane-owners) version of the ultra-glam life while remaining true to Kors’ DNA. Yet on a deeper level the photos represent the designer’s willingness to react to the cultural headwinds, as he did late last year when he revealed that his

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