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color × PUMA Suede. Deep brown, padded collar and side. ¥63,800. 10 October 2026. Unisex. Winter sea, via The Lighthouse.
The shoe is a PUMA Suede rewritten by kolor. Unisex. Deep brown suede, stuffed at the collar and along the side so the familiar outline looks as if it had put on winter weight. Black sole. Round laces. A color mark on the heel. Price ¥63,800 including tax. On sale Saturday 10 October 2026 at every color store, the color online store, and PUMA’s official online store.
The season line is a cold winter sea. color’s fall/winter 2026 collection takes that phrase from Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse: waves, repetition, a cold that the clothes are supposed to answer. The shoe is the answer in footwear. The Japanese copy calls the swell pukupuku, the look of something fattening against the weather. The last underneath is still the Suede.
Signal. What happened: color and PUMA release a padded Suede from the fall/winter 2026 collection. Exact product: unisex union Suede, deep brown, padded collar and side, black sole, round laces, color heel mark. When and where: 10 October 2026, all color stores, color online, PUMA online. Price: ¥63,800 tax included. Source: collection sale notes, early October 2026. Why it matters: Junichi Abe’s house sending PUMA’s 1968 court shoe into a season themed on Eggers’ 2019 film.


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Junichi Abe started kolor in Tokyo in 2004, after years at Comme des Garçons. The clothes have tended toward volume that is cut, not just piled: a shoulder that is larger than the body, a trouser that still breaks clean. A sneaker from that house was always likely to change the amount of material, not the logo. PUMA’s Suede is the last that can take it. Issued in 1968 as a suede basketball shoe, the Clyde in all but name, it has been the collaboration blank for decades because the form is already known. Pad the collar and the side and the shoe is still readable as a Suede. That is the joke the season copy is making.
Campaign pictures show the padding as a stuffed upper, not a platform. The sole stays black and low. The lace is round, not flat. The heel tab carries kolor rather than a second formstrip. Deep brown is the only color named. A second colorway is not in the sale note.
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The Lighthouse opened in 2019. Eggers shot it in black and white, on the Nova Scotia coast standing in for a New England rock, two keepers, a storm that does not end. kolor’s season text uses the weather, not the plot: a cold sea, waves that keep arriving. The shoe does not print a lighthouse or a gull. It thickens. Winter preparation, in the copy, is the upper gaining volume the way a body does against cold. Humor is the word the notes use. A court shoe in a down jacket’s worth of suede.
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¥63,800 is a long way from a standard Suede. The price is the padding, the collide cut, and a rel held to color’s own stores plus the two online shops. No SKU is printed in the notes read for this piece. No limited count either. Unisex is the sizing line.
10 October is the day. The sea is the season theme. The shoe is a Suede that has been filled until the collar stands away from the ankle.


