Awake NY x ASICS GEL NYC "Pink Teal"
Style Code: 1201A850-022 | Release Date: January 20th, 2024
The city never looked this good. The Awake NY x ASICS GEL-NYC "Pink Teal" takes everything that made the original collaboration a cult favorite and turns the dial toward something more daring, more vivid, and more undeniably New York — a colorway that captures the city's electric contradictions in a single silhouette. Soft and aggressive. Refined and raw. Familiar and completely unexpected. This is Angelo Baque and ASICS at their most expressive, and their most alive.
The GEL-NYC's rugged yet refined architecture — a hybrid runner built on ASICS' iconic GEL cushioning system, layered mesh and suede construction, and the kind of versatile proportions that move effortlessly between borough and runway — serves as the perfect canvas for this chromatic conversation. A warm, dusty pink washes across the base mesh and primary overlays, landing soft against the foot before yielding to rich teal accents that hit the toe cap, heel counter, and midsole stripe with deliberate, confident precision. The contrast is not accidental — it is the whole point, a dialogue between two colors that have no right to work together and yet feel completely inevitable side by side.
Awake NY's fingerprints are everywhere and nowhere at once — felt in the restraint of the execution, the quality of the materials, and the deep respect for ASICS' technical heritage that underpins every design decision. This is a sneaker that earns its color rather than hiding behind it, built for the New Yorker who moves through the world with style, substance, and the unshakable confidence of someone who knows exactly who they are. Bold, beautiful, and entirely its own — the Awake NY x ASICS GEL-NYC "Pink Teal" is the city in sneaker form. Sonnet 4.6