Camel, toffee and charcoal feature in Ukrainian collection created under Russian bombs
ou would never guess from the immaculate tailoring and finely turned silhouettes of the Litkovska collection shown atthat its production was frequently interrupted by air-raid warnings, which forced the 23-strong team of tailors and stylists to flee the design studio for a bomb shelter. It remains the only Ukrainian brand on the Paris catwalks and is still designed and produced in Kyiv by Lilia Litkovska and her team.
The collection, called From the War Zone with Peace, was shown at an art deco cinema against a backdrop of footage filmed inside the Kyiv studio. Litkovksa was all set for a busy day in her Kyiv studio on 24 February last year, planning to put final touches to a collection before travelling to Paris fashion week to show it on the catwalk. Instead, after waking that morning to the sound of bombs announcing the Russian invasion, she fled by car to Poland with her toddler daughter and one suitcase, leaving that collection behind.
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