While we are still struggling to get used to the new rules imposed by the current pandemic, the idea that facial safety devices can become indispensable accessories of our everyday life is becoming more and more certain.

For a long time we will be forced to wear them in the presence of other people, in bars, restaurants, shops, museums and during all the activities that we will start to do again in the coming months and that we will have to live in a different way than we have always known.

And while many people have already started to think of a way to make them effective but also a little more personal, the Belgian studio WeWantMore has gone one step further with truly impressive design work.

Their face masks, which cannot replace the surgical masks we already know, come from old sneakers that, destroyed and reassembled in a different way, find their new life on the face of the person wearing them.

“The sneaker masks offer some protection, but we primarily designed them to highlight humanity’s ability to adapt, not to come up with a valid alternative for a clinical face mask. It merely shows how reimagination and creativity can put a positive twist on even the hardest of times.”

According to the designers of WeWantMore, what we will face in the coming months will be a new normality to which we will have to adapt but which we will also have to be able to challenge, trying to look at it from different points of view and trying not to lose creativity and the desire to express ourselves.
Precisely in this lies, in fact, the choice to use sneakers as a starting point, an item that in recent years has won the favor of most but in recent months, due to the lockdown, has certainly lost the usefulness to which it was accustomed.

FrAmong those used by the studio there are the adidas Falcon W, the Nike Jordan Max AUra (GS), the Nike Air Edge Essential, the adidas X 17.3 FG Solar Yellow, the Saucony Jazz Original Vintage and many others.

Look at them all here and why not, try it out!