Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 x Puma Suede 'Light Mint'
Colorway: Light Mint/Black/White · Style code: 307920-01 · Release date: October 2, 2023 · Price: $299 · Availability: Available now
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Mint ties this Suede to the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula 1 team, whose cars have run a pale green-blue livery for well over a decade, and it appears here alongside black and white. Puma outfits the team and builds a consumer range off the back of that deal; this is the range applied to a 1968 shape rather than to a race boot. The release date was October 2, 2023, with a list price of 85 dollars.
The colour is the useful part of the arrangement. Mint is hard to find on a sneaker outside of summer drops, and setting it against black stops it tipping fully into pastel. The result works as a motorsport pair for people who follow the team and as an unusual green-blue for people who do not. Brushed leather takes a pale cool colour better than most materials, though it takes it permanently: mint will not come clean the way white smooth leather does, so a protector is worth applying before the first wear. The black trim at least gives the shoe somewhere to hide the marks that gather around the sole line.