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While the number of people wearing masks in Astana out of fear of the swine flu has gone down considerably (see here and here for Chris Merriman’s pics of maskopolooza), I still see the occasional mask. And you never know when the next scare will come along. That’s why a Kazakh fashion studio in Semipalatinsk is designing “glamor surgical masks”, decorated with rhinestones and costume jewelry. They run between 150-200 tenge and soon the menswear line will be released. Personally, I can’t wait for the mask fashion shows: “Versace chose only models with long elegant noses exhibiting the masks at their full potential as they sashayed and coughed down the runway. The show was held in Astana City Polyclinic Number five and all the top doctors and nurses came to this social-must event”