Angelo Baque

Habla serio!!!! This Sunday! HOTWL X @awakenewyorkclothing

HOMECOMING x AWAKE NY Thank you to our moderator @ivie.ani and our panelists @graceladoja @vashtie @angelobaque for leading an intentional and honest conversation on creative responsibility and culture. Grateful to everyone who pulled up. More to come. 🎥: @oliver_stemmler

Nah Angelo… we not about to act like we ain’t see that sneak peek 👀🔥 That Awake NY x Jordan 6?? 3 tones of pink, that red outline hitting crazy… then you threw the infrared 6 bottom on there?? Nah this different 🧠💥 And the back tab with the Nike check + “Awake NY” stamped under it?? Yeah… this one for the culture fr. We been patient since February… but I gotta ask what everybody thinking— @angelobaque @awakenewyorkclothing WHEN THESE DROPPING?? 🤔👟 Don’t gatekeep the heat now, Harlem watching 👀🌆 This that talk different, walk different type of pair… Sole Hippies World already know what time it is ♻️💯 #AwakeNY #Jordan6 #AirJordan6 #SneakerCulture #Sneakerheads

3 YEARS LATER AND WE HAVE A STORE FRONT COMPLETE. THE “A” IS FREE!! LESSON TO BE TAUGHT HERE IS MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A SCAFFOLDING CLAUSE IN YOUR RETAIL LEASE. THIS WAS A HARD LESSON LEARNED. BEFORE I SIGNED THE LEASE THERE WAS NO SCAFFOLDING, THEN I SIGNED IT AND SUDDENLY SCAFFOLDING WENT UP. IT WAS FRUSTRATING. TIME AND MONEY WAS SPENT FIGHTING A LOSING BATTLE. IT HAS BEEN PROVEN THAT SCAFFOLDING CAUSES UP TO 90% LOSS IN BUSINESS. THANK YOU TO OUR COMMUNITY FOR SUPPORTING US AND KEEPING US ALIVE THESE PAST 3 YEARS. CATCH ME OUT FRONT THIS SUMMER POSTED UP. ✌🏽🗽✨ Thank you @beauparent 🎥 @corrduroy

Tsé for @gap Tio @hidjiworld

AWAKE NY x @gap “COMMUNITY BUILDS IMMUNITY” 📷 @elissa.salas CREATIVE DIRECTOR : ANGELITO 👼🏽✨ STYLIST @_corecouturee

AWAKE NY X @gap 🎥 @hidjiworld CREATIVE DIRECTOR: ANGELITO ✨ “Personal” is an understatement to describe this visual and the project as a whole. We shot this at mi Tio y Tia’s crib in Forest Hills. They are soley responsible for my relationship with The Gap as a kid. I vividly remember them gifting me a paisley shirt when I was in the 6th grade and you couldn’t tell me that I didn’t look like @plugwondelasoul in it. My sister Ingrid at the same time in the late 80’s started going to the clubs of downtown NYC. My sister was a “house head”. Back then the clubs were not musically segregated yet. Your favorite DJ of that time had to be able to play all genres (hip hop, house, reggae & freestyle). I watched her get dressed in her green Gap anorak and head to city every weekend. I will breakdown the visual references in another post. The Gap is a part of NYC apparel DNA. I’m honored that I was given the platform to tell this story and connect the dots. (No pun intended) Thank you @alastairmckimm & @calvingeorge for trusting me ✨

Peace, spring just touched down and it’s already getting active 🌸 Crazy timing… I was just talking about their sneakers that’s supposed to be dropping, and now boom — a major collab gets revealed 👀 @awakenewyork linking with @gap is one of them ones. This is that real New York energy… uptown to downtown, culture to mainstream, all in one move. This ain’t just clothes, this is statement pieces for the city. I respect what y’all building fr — clean, intentional, and rooted in us. @angelo.baque what’s next? 👀 No copyright to the music playing in the background. #AwakeNY #GapStyle #NYCCulture #SoleHippiesWorld #HarlemStyle

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CONNECTING DOTS The idea for this project came to me end of last year. I was watching @stfuyoutalk2much bring life to Goadome Boots single handedly with his skull motifs. I was inspired by his work and saw how he was keeping the NYC narrative alive. Personally I’m tired of the idea of being a native NYer being encapsulated in a meme of a pigeon with a Yankee fitted, Nupste, construction Timbs while eating a chopped cheese. I’m interested in introducing and story telling the many facets of what it means to be from here. There are still more layers to the 90’s and early 00’s to be shown. Then I thought of TNF Mountains and Mountain light jackets. This jacket was one of the most single dead giveaways for a graffiti writer or a booster or both. As many times as I’ve seen this jacket reissued in the last couple of years, I don’t see it on the youth. Enter Omi, the objective of this project was to conduct a social experiment. It’s literally mixing a new formula to see if we can capture a new generation. This was about connecting generational dots. Omi is a second generation Dominican air brush artist from The Bronx. We sat together and curated the cast of characters for the jackets as if we were hosting the Last Supper. Thank you @cyphaknows for the guidance Big up to TCK, 5MH, NVS, KGK, IRAK, BTB, RYB and all the crews that stomped Broadway and The Ville.

SNEAKER HEADS 2003 This was shot during my time as the manager of Nom De Guerre. Featured in this clip is my best friend/mentor Vaz TCK. @niceandnastyvaz is the first person that taught about buying two pairs of kicks back in 1997. First pair to rock, second pair to put on ice. There are a lot of players in the sneaker collecting game that have been lost in the algorithm in contemporary times. Shout out to Air Rev, Chris Hall, Long Island Joe, Nasty Neal and all the downtown hustlers from 2000-2006 that made it happen. I’m glad that I was able to convince Vaz to let go some of his collection and sell it at NDG and I’m also happy with my younger self for not being too cool to be documented during this time. Also peep the patent leather 1’s I’m rocking!! You can’t get this from a magazine scan…

AWAKE NY SPRING ‘26 🗽 Thank you @stfuyoutalk2much & @hotwleather For trusting the vision 📸 @rafaelrios__