Icelandic designer makes 'scary' masks to encourage COVID-19 distancing
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Icelandic designer makes 'scary' masks to encourage COVID-xix distancing
Fashion designer Year Johannsdottir poses for a photo wearing one of her masks at her studio in Reykjavik, Iceland on May 11, 2020. (Photo: AFP/Jeremie Richard)
REYKJAVIK: Throughout the COVID-nineteen pandemic the effectiveness of masks has been under debate, but Icelandic designer Yrurari's knitted confront coverings aren't then much to cease airborne droplets as to go along people at a distance by displaying scary tongues or fangs.
The sometimes baroque creations were inspired past the films and Television receiver shows Yr Johannsdottir, the designer'south existent name, watched during a self-imposed confinement in March and April.
"The thought is that the masks would be 'scary' because of the rule of keeping the distance," Johannsdottir told AFP.
"It was a kind of joke approach ... the cloth is not safe or annihilation, but it would keep people abroad," the 27-yr-old designer added.
In the small studio she rents in an industrial area of Reykjavik, balls of yarn are piled upwards on a shelf side by side to a desk where a dozen of creations, which are knitted to await similar grotesque tongues, fangs and less than flattering dental braces.
The nearly elaborate creations require up to x hours of work to complete.
Putting tongues and mouths on masks is a logical continuation of a line of sweaters she produced two years earlier, which represented "confusing feelings that come with life", and included a sweater adorned with tongues that represented "love or lust".
Similar near Icelandic children, Johannsdottir was taught how to knit in school at the age of ix.
"I got strangely obsessed with knitting ... I was always reading Donald Duck comics and knitting at the same time," she said.
While her masks have enjoyed popularity on social media networks, the young Icelandic designer has no intention of mass producing them.
"I don't want to make too many either, I want them to just be like they are for the moment I made them."
Textile museums in the United States and the Netherlands take however already expressed interest in calculation these masks to their collections as a reminder of these unusual times.
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