New York Fashion Week is over, the glamazons and fashionistas who fab up drab midtown have moved along to the next stage of their annual transnational migration, and Gotham can finally breathe easy and let its collective gut go slack.

From all reports, it was a pretty good show — and one that seemed to underscore the growing globalization and multiculturalism of the rag trade. The new-jack generation of Asian-heritage designers like Jason Wu, Prabal Gurung and reigning runway king Alexander Wang grabbed both headlines and...