isYou Sneakers

From Co-Design sneaker company isYou:

After a local talent call in Burkina Faso, Butterfly Works selected Wilfried de Paul (artist), François Ouédraogo (photographer) and Ramata Soré (writer) as the very first !SYOU talents... Amongst other materials our very first range of fresh !SYOU sneakers uses biological cotton sourced in Eastern Africa and woven in Burkina Faso. Through Biotex Afrika we were able to produce some amazing items, such as the laces in the !SYOUs and the little cotton bags they come in...Another material we used in this range is braided recycled plastic. These are little plastic bags people pick up in the streets and turn into new objects such as little bags. We thought: why not put this in our sneakers!