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Face Mask Fashion From Around The World

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Nigerian face mask fashion

Armored up and blinged out true Nollywood style! 

As health officials and government leaders around the globe have been taking precautionary  measures to  ‘flatten the curve’, fashionistas world-wide have started to fall in line in their own creative way.

What started out as a safety measure, in a seemingly short time, became yet another way to express ones self while aiding in the fight against the spread of COVID-19.  And although mostly a trending safety protocol for now, we have a feeling it’s an accessory that’s here to stay awhile.  As such, we thought it would be fun to virtually travel around the world for a little inspiration capturing. After all, if it’s going to become part of our daily ensemble, we might as well make it the creative tool of individual expression and fashion it can certainly be.

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Holiday Gift Wrapping the Furoshiki Way.

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With Thanksgiving and Christmas quickly approaching, the push for a more sustainable way of living trending in the news, and many gift-givers having to budget their money, however folks can reduce their costs and carbon footprints during the holiday season is information well used. One of the easiest and most affordable ways to reduce both in a creative way is by incorporating a little furoskiki into the mix. A great alternative to wrapping with store bought gift wrap, this traditional Japanese method of wrapping gifts throughout the year is one that even children can share in.

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The Many Faces of Japanese Fashion

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From avant garde designer Issey Miyake  and the beautiful traditionally inspired oriental fabrics, to fashion textile deconstructionist Rei Kawakubo of Comme de Garcons and the use of monochromatic dress fabrics, the Japanese have made their mark and pushed the limits of the imagination with their degree of talent, skill, and courage over the decades; attributes Japanese based designers and will have to pull on now more than ever in light of the recent atrocities suffered on multiple levels, and a rather uncertain future since the devastating earthquake almost a month ago.

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J&O Celebrates Fashion & Art of Japan

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From their traditional silk and brocade costumes, and heavy underground fashion scene, to their popular Jap-Animations and ancient forms of script writing,  the rich culture and people of Japan have pioneered in the world of fashion, textile goods, and art much to the applause of industry critics and consumers far and wide. Yet in the wake of the recent devastation of an earthquake not seen in this magnitude for over 1200 years, anxious trend reporters and fashionistas wait in wonder as officials tally the number of lives lost, industries crumbled, and dreams destroyed that still remain to be seen. With Tokyo’s Fashion Week originally scheduled to run from March 18-25, this may very well be the first time a show like this will not go on.

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L’Éxotique – The Far East in Fabric

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Hokusai cover of Le Japon Artistique

The Far East has long fired the imaginations of artists. For centuries knowledge of the lands of the Orient was fragmentary and over time these places acquired a veneer of exotic mystery which attracted explorers and merchants. Eventually artists began to draw on the whatever information trickled back from the Orient as an inspiration to their work. Though many of these attempts to transmit the exotic are simply quaint exercises in superficial japonisme or chinoiserie, their influence can still be felt in the works they left behind.

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