Ornate, beautiful yet sightly disturbing types at avant-garde Maison Martin Margiela were vintage-inspired, embellished with dazzling crystals.
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Giambattista Valli used them even more theatrically, creating serenly beautiful netting over the model's faces, some adorned with delicate butterflies, with iconic imagery not dissimilar to that used for Silence Of The Lambs.
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Quite frankly, these are both tasteful takes on the somewhat bizarre accessory, but here are a few we dug up which really weren't our cup of tea....
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So a couple of years ago, this (wolf/pig/not sure quite what) featured during Berlin Fashion Week. Top marks for creativity and thinking out the box...but somehow this look really just isn't for us.
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This next bizarre look was back in 2009, appropriately around the same time Swine Flu was dominating the media and causing mass panic. These disturbing gas masks featured during Rosemount Fashion festival in Sydney, and were created by Stand house design. Definite Zeitgeist, but for fashionability? Not so keen.
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And this final look definitely isn't catching on anytime soon...!
