I visited Abercrombie & Fitch for the first time in years. It's come a long way, but I'm not completely sold.

Gianluca Russo; Rebecca Zisser/BI

• I visited Abercrombie & Fitch to see if the brand is living up to its recent hype.
• The brand has been revived, in part, by millennial nostalgia, but I don't feel a connection to it.
• The store had solid basics, but most of the menswear options felt like a boring sea of neutrals.

As the retail scene and style industry as a whole navigates the age of changing TikTok trends and fast-fashion spirals, many once-thriving brands have had to answer an existential question...