A Year Before Covid, A Fashion Designer Named Kovid Created A Masked Outfit

More than a year before any of heard of 
Covid, a fashion designer named, of all
things, Kovid Kapoor designed this
face-masked outfit for "Project Runway"

I guess it's fun when you find something that was unintentionally prescient,  so let's introduce a guy named Kovid Kapoor.  

Back in 2019, Kapoor was a contestant on "Project Runway," which pits various designers against each other in a series of fashion challenges. 

In one episode, Kapoor participated in a challenge called "Head To Toe" in which contestants had to create a printed design that was featured, as you'd guess, head to toe. 

As HuffPost describes it:

"Kapoor's design for the challenge eerily evokes a look that would become all too common just a year later. In a red plaid design, Kapoor created a suit with an accompanying face mask."

You can't help notice Kapoor's first name in this context.  Kovid, though is really a Sanskrit word meaning intelligent or poet, so it's actually a good name. 

The judges on the show really liked Kapoor's efforts.  Two of them called the design "sick." Really! 

Of course, not everybody just thinks this was all just a strange coincidence. 'After all, this is 2020, the year a big portion of the world's population went mad by, well, creating a strange weird not fact-based world of their own. 

It appears to be all the rage to be  whackadoodle conspiracy theorists nowadays, so Kapoor says people are finding him and informing him he is an imposter who was "paid" by the government to spread a message.

Um, okay?

 Anyway, this conspiracy theory took on so much popularity that Reuters decided they had to do a fact check on this. Not that the conspiracy theorists would believe anything the reputable Reuters would say..

Reuters reports that the "Project Runway" episode with Kapoor is totally real, but:

"Some users commenting on the video claim it's evidence of 'predictive programming'. As explained by Ohio State University...the term refers to the 'theory that the government or other higher ups are using fictional movies or books as a mass mind control tool to make the population more accepting of planned future events.'" 

Yeah, because thousands upon thousands of medical professionals, government officials and others world wide wanted to take over the world by, um, influencing the script of a reality show based on fashion.  Okey dokey. 

It turns out that Kapoor DID have a larger message in mind when he designed the outfit. (Fashion designers very often try to make political or social statements with their work).

As Reuters explains:

"Kapoor told Reuters that he decided to include a face mask because he wanted to 'put forth the issues of pollution.'  He said he was inspired bu the Chipko Movement, a nonviolent social and ecological movement that was mostly led by women in rural villages in India.  

Kapoor was also trying to evoke Asian markets in his design.  People who congregate at these markets have long worn face masks, mostly to ward off air pollution.