Fashion is meaningless at the moment, this is clear. But as I have pored over the inaugural dresses and costumes and headbands and accessories of so many other first families in the past, I thought this family deserves a thought or two these days.

Giorgio Armani showed his latest haute couture collection in Milan in total silence for respect of the people of Ukraine. I can only upload these photographs as I don’t really have words to say anything.

Hopefully they’ll be hugging each other very soon again in free Ukraine.

Photo credits throughout: Vogue Ukraine, December 2019. Photographs by Paul Bellaart. Instagram: @vogue_ukraine

Photograph of Olena Zelenska taken from her Instagram profile @olenazelenska_official

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