Puma x Stranger Things LaFrance RNR: Cracked Purple Chaos With Red Hot Accents, November 6

The strangest shoe in the Stranger Things x Puma collection is the LaFrance RNR, and that is saying something when the pack also includes a vine-covered LaFrance and a plum MB.06. The RNR takes Melo chunky retro-runner experiment and drowns it in Upside Down textures, and the result looks like a prop straight out of the show.

The upper is a muted purple washed over with a cracked, peeling pattern that reads like decayed vines or rusted Demogorgon skin. Translucent circular pods dot the sides, the kind of detail Puma has leaned on in the RUN line before, but here they glow against the crackled surface like spores. Bright red-orange laces and a matching red collar and tongue cut through all that purple haze, and molded overlays plus a chunky sculpted sole keep the whole thing grounded. Flip them over and the outsole is half charcoal, half red, with a red vine-like spine running through the tread.

Context on the model itself, because plenty of people will not know it. The LaFrance RNR is Puma taking the original LaFrance and rebuilding it as a chunky 2000s style runner, sort of what the disc-era Nike Pegasus 2005 revival did for running silhouettes. Layered mesh, pod soles, wavy paneling, it is built for attention. GOAT lists it as Plum/Orange with a mesh upper and categories it as lifestyle.

Release info is straightforward. Style code 313928-01, priced at 130 dollars, dropping November 6 alongside the MB.06 and the LaFrance through Puma.com and select retailers. Of the three, the RNR is the most experimental and likely the most niche, but the red versus purple contrast is genuinely striking in person and nobody else is making shoes that look like this. If you want the sneaker people ask about at the function, it is this one.