Pollution Chic: China’s Smog Prompts Face Masks on Fashion Week Runways
Pollution Chic: China’s Smog Prompts Face Masks on Fashion Week Runways – There’s a new fashion statement hitting Chinese runways: the beautiful smog mask.
Fashion designers incorporated the pollution-blocking masks into their designs for Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week in Beijing less than two weeks after Beijing marathoners donned masks for their 26.2-mile race on Oct. 19.
Earlier this year, the World Health Organization reported that more than 7 million premature deaths worldwide are linked to air pollution each year.
Dr. Dorr Dearborn, an environmental health expert, said that smog has consistently been a problem for industrialized China, whose thick fog of pollution is primarily the result of burning coal.
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