PARIS and MILAN — On the Saturday evening of Milan Fashion Week last month, 62 year-old Michelle Yeoh quietly made fashion history when she turned up at the Bottega Veneta show dressed in the brand’s leather jeans paired with an off-white leather shirt in its signature intrecciato weave.
I had been working on a story about Yeoh for several months, and knew she had been named an ambassador for Balenciaga, eight months after becoming the first Asian woman — and second woman of colour —…

