Puma Suede 'Spraycan - Pristine'
Colorway: Pristine/Cherry Tomato · Style code: 383396-01 · Release date: January 23, 2022 · Price: $94 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Puma Suede 'Spraycan - Black' (383396-02)
Graffiti is the reference behind the Spraycan name, and the shoe pairs Pristine off-white with cherry tomato red, a combination not far from a can of paint on a white wall. The build is brushed leather, and the red works as the accent against a pale base rather than the reverse. Puma dated the pair January 23, 2022.
Street culture has a long association with this silhouette, which spent the 1980s in breaking and hip-hop circles well before any brand tried to reference that history in a product name. A colourway that makes the link explicit is a slightly odd thing, but the execution is restrained enough to survive it: two colours, no print, no slogan anywhere on the shoe. Worn plainly it reads as a red-accented white sneaker and nothing more. The pale base will need looking after, and a strong red holds its saturation on nap longer than a pale shade does, so the pair ages unevenly rather than all at once.