The creative director, Demna, who fled Georgia as a refugee, recited a poem in Ukrainian while the models walked
The men and women stumbled through the snow, heads bowed against the wind. Shivering in flimsy layers, they carried their possessions in sacks.
The snow was fake, and Kim Kardashian was watching from the front row. The flimsy layers will cost thousands, and the models wore spike-heeled thigh-high boots. But in a week when more than 1 million Ukrainians have been forced to flee their homes, the allusion at this Balenciaga catwalk show was clear.
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