I am totally in love with the illustrations of Dutch artist Raymond Lemstra. Inspired by tribal and primitive masks and totems, and mixed with a little touch of pop and Japanese culture and you get these very unique drawings.

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Masks everywhere ~ in every shape, medium and form are inspiring our curiosity. Illustrator Iain Macarthur has a nice series of extremely intricately illustrated masks and headpieces that I wanted to add to our archive on the upcoming trend of masks.

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Since the masquerade ball and the Vogue Paris editorial, I feel am like I seeing masks everywhere, even if we spotted the mask trend more than 1 year ago, it looks like its really developing now. This is an editorial by Panos Yiapanis and photographed by Willy Vanderperre for Vogue Hommes International #12.

(...) Read More about Faux Semblant Editorial for Vogue Homme (5 words)

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It was a fashion fantasy explosion! The party of year (if not the last 10 years), everyone in the fashion industry was at Carine Roitfeld‘s masquerade ball party inside the sumptuous Hôtel Pozzo Di Borgo, celebrating 90 years of Vogue Paris. From every single top models to Anna Dello Russo, Jean Paul Gauliter, Marc Jacobs, Diane Von Furstenberg, Christian Louboutin, Viktor & Rolf… well everyone was there in their best Eyes Wide Shut-theme wearing black ties, sheer gowns, and amazing masks! See all the beautiful (BIG) pictures we where able to find for you below!

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No famous models or photographers for the Patrizia Pepe F/W 2010 Ad campaign. Instead the faces of models are covered with different accessories – mask, dog, balloons, boom-box, bags and other interesting attributes. The idea behind the campaign and the  mysterious Who Is Patrizia? slogan is (...) Read More about Who is Patrizia? (Pepe) Campaign (32 words)

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The visual concept behind the collections of fashion designer Nicolas Petrou is graphically well executed ! His latest presentation of Men collection Petrou\Man during NY Fashion week, which saw models in a plethora of masked jumpsuits with Petrou’s casual tailoring fused with active sportswear. Interesting…

Styled by Robbie Spencer: the Dazed & Confused fashion editor – See the presentation video on Digital Dazed

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I really like this tribal mask-like series illustrated by Indian-born Illustrator Nina Chakrabarti . The series below was made for the free artsy US/Seattle based magazine, I Want You. (issue 2 coming in October)(...) Read More about Nina Chakrabarti for I Want You Magazine (0 words)

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Stunning mask photography by Richard Burbridge published in the current issue of Swedish Livraison Magazine.(...) Read More about Richard Burbridge Mask photography for Livraison Magazine (18 words)

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Its crazy how fast it goes now, an epidemic and soo many surf on the trend. Like Japanese Illustrator Yoriko Yoshida who created some really cool mask to fight the Swine Flue with Style. He designed a lot of them, you should check them all here(...) Read More about Yoriko Yoshida Swine Flue Style Mask (0 words)

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