His parents however, saw the resulting images and freaked out! “That was technically the first mask I ever made. I had got myself a copy of Madonna’s book SEX, which had a metal cover and I chopped it up and made metal claws and the inserts to the ears of my costume.” However, he did not begin making masks professionally until about five years ago. He was working in San Francisco at a fabric store called BRITEX with his friend Emily Payne, who was asked to be on Project Runway and later Project Runway All Stars. “She was having a fashion show in New York in 2016 and she knew that I had been making wearable art pieces for some of my friends here in the city, drag queens and creative types. She was doing a gender neutral collection and wanted a way to fashionably obscure everyone’s faces.”
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