Some offered heartfelt tributes to the Ukrainian people alongside their women's autumn-winter collections -- none more so than Balenciaga designer Demna.
A refugee himself during a conflict in his native Georgia in the early 1990s, he admitted that fashion week felt like"an absurdity" against the background of the war in Ukraine.
Demna recited a Ukrainian poem to open his show and draped the seats in the country's blue-and-yellow flag.France's fashion federation, which urged attendees to experience the week"with solemnity, and in reflection of these dark hours", said Sunday it was cancelling Russian designer Valentin Yudashkin's show on the final day for failing to condemn the war.
Some announced donations, such as the million euros offered for Ukrainian children by Louis Vuitton. The company announced record revenues of 64.2 billion euros last year.Stella McCartney opened her show with clips of president John F Kennedy's moving 1963 address about the Cold War and ended with"Give Peace a Chance" by her father's ex-bandmate John Lennon.