From Fashionista.com:
Total face-obscuring head-encasing masks have long been a trope for Maison Martin Margiela. And for those fashion outsiders whod never heard of Margiela or seen one of the labels signature masks before, Kanyes fondness for performing in them probably changed all that.
At last weeks couture show we were struck by just how intricate and, well, blinding these masked seem to be. How could the models see through the tiles, the flowers, the beaded embroidery? Lynn Yaeger, writing for The Cut, felt the same way. The refugees on the runway at the Martin Margiela couture show will have no trouble confusing the border police, as their faces are completely covered by masksit is difficult to even imagine how they can find their way out from backstage, she wrote.
So we went straight to the source: How, we asked a Margiela rep, do the models walk in a straight line while wearing those things?
The base of the masks is made of black silk gauze, a transparent material that allow models to see through it, the Margiela spokesperson explains. Its essential that this transparent material be in black and not white, because white becomes opaque.