{"id":130571,"date":"2020-04-17T11:39:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T09:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/nike-air-turns-into-masks\/"},"modified":"2020-04-17T11:39:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T09:39:12","slug":"nike-air-turns-into-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/nike-air-turns-into-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"Nike Air turns into masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/la-risposta-dei-brands-allemergenza-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">answer of the brands to the COVID-19 emergency<\/a> is now clear: the world&#8217;s biggest fashion giants, starting with the Italians Armani and Versace, have converted their production into <strong>sanitary materials<\/strong> like coats and masks. Today we talk about how the most important<strong> sportswear<\/strong> company in the world has decided to help those who, in the front line, are fighting this very difficult battle.<\/p>\n<p>We are talking about <a href=\"\/\/www.nike.com\/it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Nike<\/em><\/strong><\/a> who, in collaboration with <a href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oregon_Health_%26_Science_University\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Oregon Healt &amp; Science University<\/em><\/a>, has created a face shield model starting from <strong>TPU<\/strong>, the transparent thermoplastic material usually used in the soles of <strong>Air shoe models<\/strong>. The production of full-face shields and certified supplementary glasses will be destined for healthcare professionals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Currently, it is precisely the Oregon medical school that tests the first products sent by Nike:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;The full-face masks help protect the face of health workers and also help to prolong the safe use of surgical masks. Nike&#8217;s generous response to this crisis helps build confidence, gives support to healthcare professionals and allows us to do the job we were born for safely &#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>explains\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Miko Enomoto<\/strong>, associate professor at the famous University of Portland in the USA. After the Oregon pole, other American structures will receive the new visors&#8217; donation.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, in production there are also <strong>respiratory masks<\/strong> with an air purification system always made from the materials used for the shoes, including padding and strings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B9_440DAyvZ\/\">\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B9_440DAyvZ\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>New Balance<\/strong> has also followed Nike&#8217;s lead and their factories are already collaborating with local medical facilities by making work coats, limb protection devices and other essentials for personal protection.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The answer of the brands to the COVID-19 emergency is now clear: the world&#8217;s biggest fashion giants, starting with the Italians Armani and Versace, have converted their production into sanitary materials like coats and masks. Today we talk about how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":176496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69470,8,69417],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130571"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waitfashion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=130571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}