MILAN — Have we reached the end of fashion history, doomed to endlessly recycling the past? To be sure, a cranky mashup of historic moments was a lot of what we got at the latest Milan fashion week. The goings were steeped in nostalgia, with endless trips down memory lane. It was a peculiar brand of nostalgia, however: absent-minded and forgetful. Many collections looked like they were pulled together haphazardly, as if flipping through a catalogue of the best and worst of the last…

