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

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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 poe...