An Interview With a Ukrainian Designer Stuck at Milan Fashion Week

On Wednesday, Ukrainian outerwear brand Ienki Ienki, which is known for its luxe quilted down jackets, presented its Fall-Winter 2022 collection at Milan Fashion Week. On Thursday, the brand’s founder and designer, Dima Ievenko, woke up at 5:20 a.m in his Milanese hotel room, checked his phone, and saw it was full of messages from family members, friends, and employees in Ukraine. Ievenko, who lives and works in Kyiv, was bleary eyed and exhausted from several nights of fitful sleep. But the messages couldn’t have been clearer: “It started. Oh my god, it started,” Ievenko recalled reading. Russia had launched… Read Full Article