Swine Flu Gives Fashion Blogs Surgical Mask Fever
Thursday, Apr 30, 2009 | Updated 8:45 AM PST
Image via Irina Blok
There's a fashion angle on the swine flu story, of course: Surgical masks! We could have predicted a post or two about fashionable face coverings, but we didn't anticipate that we'd see four this afternoon. Our round-up:
1.) The creepy: New York blog Guest of a Guest discovered masks decorated to look like other animal's mouths, by a company called Samiraboon. Looking too hard at the monkey makes us uncomfortable.
2.) The stylish: Refinery29 dug up a high-meets-low assemblage that runs from Hussein Chalayan's beekeeper veil to American Apparel's mustache mask.
3.) The boldfaced names: NYT blog The Moment produced a whole slideshow of masks at Fashion Week. Alexander McQueen, Martin Margiela, Junya Watanabe—obviously they all knew about swine flu months in advance.
4.) The adorable: Designer Irina Blok's line surgical mask includes one with a Lady Gaga-ish zipper, one in a dashing leopard print, and one, our favorite, that just says "OINK" in big pink letters.
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