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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Colleen Barry

Liberatore puts models on emergency escape, drawing attention to global chaos

Italy Fashion Francesca Liberatore S/S 2026 - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Models descended an emergency escape staircase to access the Francesca Liberatore runway during Milan Fashion Week on Sunday, as if to beckon the world to find a route away from the desperate human suffering around the globe.

Liberatore comes at the runway with an artistic sensibility, but due to global turmoil she said she didn‘t want to turn her Spring-Summer 2026 collection into a warm-weather narrative.

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