Cool Hunting

An Interview with Mihara Yasuhiro
For the past seven years Japanese designer Mihara Yasuhiro has been collaborating with Puma on a line of wildly inventive sneakers that has become known—with features like patterns, drips, fur, studs, stripes and metallics—for adding a true avant-garde edge to shoes. The current Spring/Summer 2007 collection marks Mihara's fifth collection with Puma that includes limited edition re-issues of the MY-1 Peace, featuring a variation...

T-Book x Peter Schmid Sneakers
With British t-shirt company T-Book's tessellating expressions of love and the German Puma designer Peter Schmid's high and low-tops, these may be the most romantic kicks out there. Laser-burnt with T-Book's clever, M.C. Escher-esque "Don't Kiss Goodbye" (pictured left, click either image for detail) or with their "I Love You" repeating script pattern (pictured right), the process takes about an hour for each pair....

Puma Mongolian Shoe BBQ v2
In March 2005 Puma unveiled their Mongolian Shoe BBQ—an in-store sneaker customization experience where you pick out actual parts and they get shipped off and sewn in to shoes (see our preview here and the shoes I made here). Now Puma is doing it again, this time with the RS-100, their 80s running shoe. And this time, in addition to being a touring, in-store...

Puma x Cubanbee RS 100 Contest Winner
Congratulations Leslie Siemer! Leslie was the winner picked out of the hundreds of entries we received in our recent Puma x Cubanbee RS 100 contest and will be receiving all three of the new styles soon. For the rest of you wanting to add some of that summery weave to your wardrobe, the shoes officially debuted at Barney's, ALIFE, and Classic Kicks last week...