In our neighboring country is already mandatory in Asian countries, of course, and only a matter of time. So why does it cost us every time to Overcome, to go with a protection mask on the road? Why do we have inhibitions? The has a long Tradition of Mask but also with us. To wear a mask means to hide our “true” face, but also unpredictability and threat. It Stay away signaled: just!
We have in Germany since 1985, is a goddamn mask law, which forbids us to hide our identity in Public behind scarves and balaclavas. What is it that fascinates us on the one hand, on masks, and at the same time repels?
we can do it now, to allow a mask to a banal everyday object become?
A brief look back: It’s been going on for a long time. Masks with religious or ritual Background, protective masks, Tarnmasken or the fun masks (Halloween, monsters, super heroes, … you name it). All have one in common: they change our appearance and how we in our environment are perceived. All of these masks have a very clear function, a specified range of use, but we wore them so far, not every day on the road.
we can do it now, to let go of it, and a mask that covered our face, changing our appearance, ourselves and others protects, and a whole series of associations in our head triggers (threat, disease, disasters, crime), to a very mundane everyday object? (Read here: disinfectants and protective clothing instead of High Fashion: How fashion Labels Corona fight)
fashion is used as a means of expression in our society
Or we will capitalize on the fear sometime banal and masks to the Trend accessory explain? We carry Louis Vuitton and Prada-mouth protection, as if there had never been a “without”? It is not downright cynical, a life-protective to explain the subject of the fashion accessory? Or should and we must rid our minds of them and wear masks as soon as the shoes we wear every day, without questioning it? Or even as a mere fashionable show. Iconic Gucci “head to toe suit” made of Swarovski stones of Alessandro Michele was, for example, in the past, for the fall 2017 collection of Rihanna.
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You don’t must look far to find Inspiration on the international Runways. Masks are a topic that appears so safely through the seasons again and again and still a lot of leaves – at least in terms of everyday usability. But it’s not that alone in the case of fashion, fortunately. So why did the Designer have an Obsession with masks, and what are we getting right now? Fashion to loosen the constraints and traditions of our appearance and change our perception by others again and again. It serves as a means of expression of our society and is always also a mirror of our culture.
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Martin Margiela, one of the pioneers and Visionaries of the 90’s, played in his early collections with our perception and anonymised the Models behind white cloths –or, as in the spring of 2009, behind absurd Facial Hair Masks ends. Rei Kawakubo remembered as last of the heroes in their Childhood and brought in the autumn/Winter of 2018 for Comme des Garçons Homme Plus dinosaurs skull as a face masks on the catwalk.
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Also, Thom Browne, in his capacity of master of the suit, at the same time is known for its fancy Shows. We take away the masks, remains razor-sharp Tailoring left. We put them on again, we see men who have remained boys. Climate change, environmental disasters, or simply the beauty of nature are recurring themes in Craig Greens Runway Shows. The Outfits from his fall collection for 2020 looked like a surreal protective suits. (Also interesting: Milan, moved to Paris cancelled – the Fashion Weeks in the Corona-crisis)
you all create with your collections, a total work of art, by estranging things and put them in a new context. Bring us to our look at been Usual to realign and to give all a new reality. Whether it’s fantasy, dream, or just the desire for change, for all of the fashion is…, and masks are just a logical addition.
This article was written by (Manuela Hainz)
*The post “The mask is only protection or will soon Trend?” published by GQ. Contact with the executives here.
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