The images coming out of Ukraine these days do not tend to be especially stylish. But even in wartime, the country’s fashion industry is raging on. One of its most prominent designers, Svitlana Bevza, has even managed to make it to New York in time to show her spring-summer ’23 collection during the city’s Fashion Week.
Sitting in a friend’s living room in Brooklyn, Bevza wears an elegant ivory pullover she designed. Her necklace is fashioned from gold chain links, shaped like angry spikes of Ukrainian wheat. “It’s been such a tough half of this year,” she says. “I’m used to … not the best of conditions.”
