Designer LaQuan Smith is bringing high fashion drama to sports in a luxe collab with PUMA. While the New York native partnered with the footwear brand for a NYFW in 2021, this marks Smith’s first official capsule collection.
The moody collection features a futuristic athleisure collection with catwalk-worthy silhouettes, including a corset, cropped long-sleeve cropped with bell sleeves, printed dress, and track pants.
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It also includes redesigns of two classic PUMA sneakers — the RS-X and Kosmo Rider — in the same black, white, chrome, and minty pistachio green colorway.
The Kosmo Rider boasts an edgy, intergalactic vibe with a PUMA-patterned toe box accented with chrome-silver eyestays and tongue detailings with splashes of green. The RS-X adds geometric pops of chrome silver drama to the all-black shoe accented with Smith’s signature on the tongue.
The PUMA x LaQuan Smith collection retails from $60 to $120 and is available at select Foot Locker stores and footlocker.com. The collection is also set to debut on puma.com in the coming weeks.
Stephenetta Harmon is a Black beauty editor, curator, and digital media and communications expert who builds platforms to celebrate the power, impact, and business of Black beauty. Prior to founding Sadiaa Black Beauty Guide, she served as editor-in-chief for the MN Spokesman-Recorder and digital media director for Hype Hair. Find her at stephenetta.com.