{"id":17912,"date":"2020-11-27T12:03:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T07:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=17912"},"modified":"2020-11-27T12:03:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T07:03:57","slug":"excessive-trend-setters-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/17912","title":{"rendered":"Excessive trend-setters in Japan."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo,<\/p>\n<p>Japanese trend-setters can now protect against the coronavirus in luxurious style with opulent masks adorned with diamonds and pearls for a cool million yen ($9,600) each. Cox Co\u2019s Mask.com chain began selling the hand-made masks last week, with the aim of cheering up people and spurring sales in a fashion industry depressed by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9722\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9722\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9722 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" src=\"https:\/\/inflics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/949722-300x219.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inflics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/949722-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inflics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/949722-768x560.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inflics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/949722.jpg 800w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An employee of Cox Co, the operation company of the face-mask specialty shop Mask.com, shows off a luxury face mask made with about 330 pearls which is sellig for one million yen ($9,640), at the shop, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tokyo, Japan November\u00a0 Photo courtesy\u00a0 REUTERS\/Issei Kato<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The diamond masks are embellished with a 0.7 carat diamond and more than 300 pieces of Swarovski crystal, while the pearl masks contain some 330 Japanese Akoya pearls.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9721\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9721\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9721 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" src=\"https:\/\/inflics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2020-11-25T051553Z_2_LYNXMPEGAO080_RTROPTP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-JAPAN-MASK-300x213.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inflics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2020-11-25T051553Z_2_LYNXMPEGAO080_RTROPTP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-JAPAN-MASK-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inflics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2020-11-25T051553Z_2_LYNXMPEGAO080_RTROPTP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-JAPAN-MASK-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inflics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2020-11-25T051553Z_2_LYNXMPEGAO080_RTROPTP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-JAPAN-MASK.jpg 800w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An employee of Cox Co, the operation company of the face-mask speciality shop Mask.com, holding a luxury face mask decorated with the diamond, platinum and Swarovski crystals which is selling for one million yen ($9,640), is reflected on a mirror at the shop, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tokyo, Japan November photo courtesy\u00a0 REUTERS\/Issei Kato\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cox, part of retailing group Aeon Co, has opened Mask.com online and in six physical locations since September, offering more than 200 types of masks starting at 500 yen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo, Japanese trend-setters can now protect against the coronavirus in luxurious style with opulent masks adorned with diamonds and pearls for a cool million yen ($9,600) each. Cox Co\u2019s Mask.com chain began selling the hand-made masks last week, with the aim of cheering up people and spurring sales in a fashion industry depressed by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1461],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17914,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17912\/revisions\/17914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}