PUMA's Well-Spotted Speedcat Is the King of the Jungle
Simply put, PUMA is not playing around. Specifically, it's PUMA's signature Speedcat that's having quite the comeback season, and now with a well-dotted Super Yaya collab, the Speedcat sneaker is rapidly reaching king of the jungle status.
A graduate of Central Saint Martins, the birthplace of many a fashion legend, Rym Beydoun, founder of contemporary womenswear label Super Yaya, brought her swaggy Afrocosmic steez to PUMA's premier motorsport sneaker via a bunch of little tiny polka dots.
These tiny little circles give the shoe a futuristic edge which plays quite nice with the Speedcat’s retro disposition.
Additionally, the upper is made with lightweight canvas instead of the mesh and suede compositions PUMA has been partial to in the past. Gotta stay light on those toes.
All that is to say, the PUMA Speedcat is earning its spots in the most literal sense.
With the help of Super Yaya, the Puma Speedcat, available on the Zalando website for $150, now rocks a fully polka-dot upper that gives the shoe a unique vibe unlike anything we've seen on a PUMA sneaker before.
Because, to be clear, we have seen PUMA get weird with it before. Like an open-toe Speedcat slingback? Puma did it. A hairy PUMA moccasin? Yup, Puma did that too. So it's fair to say PUMA can get jiggy with the weirdest of shoes out there.
But a dotted shoe that is elegant enough to fit in at a ballet studio, but off-kilter enough to lowkey trigger your latent trypophobia? Well, that's new territory for sure.
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