Awake NY x Gap Collection
Release Date: Spring 2026
New York rewrites a classic. The Awake NY x Gap Collection brings Angelo Baque's fiercely community-rooted label into conversation with the American retail institution that has dressed more first days of school, more family road trips, and more ordinary extraordinary American moments than perhaps any brand in the country's history. This is not a streetwear brand elevating a legacy retailer. It is two expressions of American identity recognizing something essential in each other and deciding to make something from it.
The collection moves through the wardrobe staples that both Awake NY and Gap have always understood as the foundation of a real closet — heavyweight fleece hoodies, relaxed denim, oxford shirts, crewneck sweatshirts, and outerwear built for the specific climate of a New York that does not stop moving between October and April. Awake NY's design sensibility runs through each piece with the precision the label has always brought to its work — the color palette pulled from the urban landscape of the five boroughs, the graphics rooted in the civic pride and neighborhood identity that Baque has made the cornerstone of everything Awake NY produces. Gap's American manufacturing heritage and fabric quality provide the canvas, Awake NY's creative vision provides the intention, and the result sits at the intersection of accessible and considered in a way that neither party could have achieved independently.
Angelo Baque has spent his career making clothes for the people of New York — not the New York of fashion weeks and rooftop parties, but the New York of the subway platform, the corner store, and the block that raised you. Gap has spent its history making clothes for the America that lives between the coasts and inside the everyday. The Awake NY x Gap Collection is what happens when those two New Yorks — the specific and the universal — decide they have always been the same place. Sonnet 4.6