Rhinestone gas masks & social protest

A rhinestone gas mask on the runway at China Fashion Week in Beijing: China’s forays into restoring capitalism come with all the necessary fashion accessories. Or is fashion a Chinese form of samizdat protest against heavily polluted cities & waterways, widespread chemical contamination, mercury pollution from coal plants & carbon emissions that threaten the planet? This fact sheet gives an idea of the massive, widespread, bold scale of environmental protest in China that relies less on metaphor & more on challenging the government's reckless disregard for nature & human welfare: http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=1895&catid=10&subcatid=66    (Photo by Alexander F. Yuan/AP)