Haute-Couture Patternmaker and designer turns her home into a face mask factory - Stacey Abrams Newsroom https://stacey-abrams-ecosystem.mmcxchange.com/ Thu, 21 May 2026 20:36:17 -0400 en-US hourly 1 Baltimore Times RSS Hub Haute-Couture Patternmaker and designer turns her home into a face mask factory https://stacey-abrams-ecosystem.mmcxchange.com/detail/haute-couture-patternmaker-and-designer-turns-her-home-into-a-face-mask-factory_1777207329 Tue, 12 May 2020 02:48:45 -0400 https://stacey-abrams-ecosystem.mmcxchange.com/detail/haute-couture-patternmaker-and-designer-turns-her-home-into-a-face-mask-factory_1777207329 Haute-Couture Patternmaker and designer turns her home into a face mask factory

Realizing she was able to help relieve Philadelphia’s medical community’s shortage of facemasks during the pandemic, Laurel Hoffmann decided to mass-produce masks in her home-based studio. The Philadelphia medical community faced a shortfall if N95 masks and other equipment, which state officials requested from FEMA to battle coronavirus. Medical institutions, nursing homes, home health aids, and community workers have also requested thousands of additional masks through their website. When Hoffmann…]]>