The creator of Katimo has been hiding with her mother in a bomb shelter while her husband fights for their country.
.) Timoshenko, herself, evacuated Kyiv and is now in the region of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, in a city she does not want to name, due to safety concerns.Timoshenko's store and coffee shop, Katimo Cafe, are now closed, with all production halted, and yet, she donated some of the money from her cafe sales to volunteer organizations delivering food and medicine to Ukrainians in need.
Before the war began, Timoshenko launched a fall/winter collection of minimalistic slip dresses and elegant, oversized fur coats and ponchos, and was working on a spring/summer collection, which was meant to launch on March 17."Until that terrible morning when war was declared, I was sure that our spring would be wonderful; the new collection was supposed to be very bright, fresh, and more festive than usual.
When I ask what she thinks of Paris Fashion Week continuing on amid the terrible chaos, she says she's actually proud of how the global fashion industry has responded to the issue and shown support for Ukraine."Unfortunately, the war in Ukraine is not the first in the world. And, of course, the industry should not stop its work. PFW and other fashion weeks are very important," she says.
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