When Vogue Ukraine’s fashion director Vena Brykalin boarded a plane headed for Milan Fashion Week from his hometown of Kyiv late last Wednesday night, he had no idea that just hours later Ukraine’s airspace would be shut down.
“I was actually meant to fly the following morning but my colleague randomly changed the booking at the last minute, so I guess she maybe saved my life,” he says, as we meet for a coffee in a hotel in Milan.
