Observer Report / 0029|A mask is art on the runway and a fine on the street Index EN 中文 INCODER Observation Archive A mask is art on the runwayand a fine on the street On 19 August the Portuguese president signed what local media call the “burqa law”. Covering your face in a public space now carries a fine of up to €3,000. Attached to the statute is a schedule of exemptions: health, professional, artistic, extreme weather, places of worship, diplomatic premises, aircraft. In March of the same year the AW26 runways in London and Paris were full of masks, and McQueen sent models out carrying porcelain replicas of their own faces. Across the Atlantic, legislators in thirty-odd states spent...