How designers can help meet the mask and medical supplies shortage right now.
. Their jobs are collaborative by nature—i.e., not exactly suited to our current #WFH isolation—and in the face of a global pandemic, they probably didn’t think they could offer much help. That’s changed in the past week: The industry has collectively reacted to the shocking lack of medical supplies in U.S. hospitals, particularly masks, by making their own.
to the apparel industry to start making masks and gowns. Christian Siriano was among the first to respond, writing: “I have a full sewing team still on staff working from home that can help.” Brandon Maxwell and Rosie Assoulin have also been researching the best way to make masks and gowns.
Understandably, it’s all creating a bit of confusion. Designers want to help and have piles of unused fabric in their studios, but my research—and my conversations with New York doctors and nurses—suggests health care workers won’t have much use for DIY fabric masks. As Siriano likely learned, a fabric mask can block out fluids, but it cannot protect you from airborne particles or viruses, particularly one as contagious as the coronavirus.
Small designers shouldn’t be deterred from trying to help, either. They can purchase N95s and donate them to hospitals, or they can support new platforms like Mask a Hero or Mask Match, which are collecting N95s to give to hospital workers. Pyer Moss’s Kerby Jean-Raymond has transformed his studio into a donation center for N95s and other medical supplies. These initiatives exist because there are, in fact, tons of N95s out there—they just aren’t in the right hands.
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