Nike Continues to Celebrate Mexican Culture With Air Force 1 "Lucha Libre" Featuring a luchador mask shroud. Footwear. Aug 22, ... and black panels make up the patent leather mask design.

Mexican lucha libre wrestler Hijo del Soberano sews face masks since his matches have stopped due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ... his own green-and-gold design. Each mask sells for 150 pesos ($6.26 ...

“When I wear a mask, I like to show the strength of just being,” Chébaka says. “This is my way of painting my people in the most beautiful light I know.” ...

Hijo del Soberano was already designing lucha libre costumes on the side. Since his wrestling venue shut amid Mexico's lockdown, he's turned to making masks. "I just altered my skills a bit," he says.

Lace shrouds on both sneakers fully animate the sports reference with each resembling half of a Lucha Libre mask. Completed when each Air Force 1 is put side-by-side, the patent leather mask ...

The wrestling mask. It's a classic part of wrestling organizations everywhere, whether it's the CMLL or the WWE. Almost every organization has its obligatory masked man ...

Attending a lucha libre show in Mexico City two years ago helped serve as inspiration for the design, and Life brought the mask to life with its distinct colors and detail. “I wanted to make the ...

It is widely believed that wrestling masks got their start in 1865, when a French circus performer named Theobaud Bauer donned a face covering and became "The Masked Wrestler." Fast forward a few ...

Masks get a bad rap. Either they’re terrifying or they’re strikingly bodiless, ... Kate Nickerson designs wrestler costumes in her home studio./Thom Carroll. Kate Nickerson, ...

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The costume designer for the new Prime Video biopic described the challenge of bridging lucha libre and drag aesthetics on film. By Frank Rojas He strides into the ring in a long, sequined cape ...

He not only lost wages from the canceled matches, but his side gig dried up, too. Hijo del Soberano and his wife sew costumes and the colorful, sometimes intimidating, masks the luchadores wear.