A showroom in NoHo highlights six designers with roots and family in the country.
In a showroom in the NoHo section of Manhattan, a laptop sat on a table, tucked behind a rack of knitwear by the Ukrainian label 91 Lab. The computer streamed CNN silently. Ominous footage from the streets of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, caught the eye of Alina Bairamova, the fashion industry coordinator for Ukrainian Fashion, a showcase for Ukrainian designers.
“I’m sorry,” Ms. Bairamova said, adding that the scene was very near her mother’s house.
The footage was from the previous day, and Ms. Bairamova’s mother, who works at a veteran’s hospital in Kyiv, was safe. Still,
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