How Designers & Creatives Help During the Pandemic: Face Masks
Design Assistant Tejasvi Madeti’s COUPAR care package.
This past week, Gavin Newsom announced that Californians are required to wear face masks in high-risk settings. As COVID continues to persist and face coverings remain a constant in our everyday lives, why not make them a fashion statement? While COUPAR diligently follows proper precautions, Krista Coupar, our CEO, and Founder, wanted to ensure that each of her employees stays safe and stylish by sending everyone a variety of bespoke masks. We sourced them from different "vendors," and our Director of Operations, Evelyn Vosti, put together a pretty care package based on each employee's taste.
Joe Kowalski’s masks as art.
Showrooms always have discontinued fabric wings. What better use of these exquisite textiles than to turn them into couture masks? That is precisely what employees of Kneedler Fauchère did, starting with the San Francisco showroom's Joseph Kowalski. Joe, Outside Sales Representative extraordinaire, is also quite accomplished with a needle and thread crafting beautiful cover-ups. When his dance card became full of virtual sales presentations, he referred COUPAR to his colleague Jessica Knickman at Denver | Kneedler Fauchère, whose mom sews masks. We love ours! Contact Jessica here to learn more: jknickman@kneedlerfauchere.com.
Audrey Jung’s marching masks.
Native San Franciscan Audrey Jung, owner and founder of Audrey Modern, creates simple, clean, and modern handbags. Audrey has been affected by the Shutdown with the cancellation of craft shows. Turning to her sewing machine and an extensive collection of graphic fabric scraps, she started making unique masks. Audrey's face coverings combine two whimsical patterns on the front with a third on the back. She requested that we donate to COVID-19 relief funds in exchange for her masks. Follow Audrey Modern on Instagram to support the cause.
Fannie Allen’s bouquet of masks.
COUPAR'S client interior designer Fannie Allen of Fannie Allen Design entered one of her colorful masks into the Museum of Craft and Design's show Let's Face It, an international mask design competition. Fannie calls herself a fabric junkie, so she was instantly drawn to helping the pandemic by creating face coverings. She has been doing extensive research on what makes a comfortable mask and ensuring that they are aesthetically pleasing, hoping that more people will be inclined to wear them. Follow Fannie Allen on Instagram to learn more about her mask offerings.
With so many choices why go maskless?
