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Far from home, Ukrainian designers showcase fashion that was created amid air raid sirens
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Ksenia Schnaider, a Ukrainian fashion designer, center, chats with her husband Anton Schnaider at their studio in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, England, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. For Ksenia Schaider and other Ukrainian designers, the fashion show must go on, despite the war in their country – or precisely because of it. Schaider may have fled to the U.K. as a refugee, but her team still makes every garment in Kiev, often under incessant air raid sirens and lengthy power cuts. - photo by AP Photo/Kin Cheung
LONDON (AP) — For Ksenia Schnaider and her fellow Ukrainian fashion designers, the show must go on despite the war in their country — or precisely because of it. For much of the past year, Schnaider and her team of seamstresses toiled away in their Kyiv studio, crafting her new collection of designer denim and luxury daywear even as air raid sirens, drone attacks and power cuts took over their lives and made production almost impossible to continue. Schnaider, 39, fled Ukraine with her husband and young daughter when Russia invaded her country in 2022.