The shows go on: Ukrainian Fashion Week takes place in Kyiv amid a sombre mood


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Nadiia Oksiuta, an injured civilian, and Dmytro Tereshchenko, a former soldier who lost a leg, in the centre of the room, during Ukrainian Fashion Week in Kyiv. Photo: The New York Times

Ukrainian Fashion Week is back in Kyiv. The event first returned last year, after being suspended in 2022 in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Life had to continue, the organisers said, even if fashion, like everything else in Ukraine, has been marked by the war.

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