Hispanic Heritage Month: How Rob Garcia Is Using His Heritage and Personal Interests to Inform His Professional Pursuits
Rob Garcia is an endless source of energy. Someone finding his Instagram account for the first time may think he’s either a tennis player or a trail runner, having to scroll through endless photos of sport and adventure before finding his professional pursuits. Garcia is one of the most accomplished figures in streetwear today and wears many hats — mostly creative director and designer — at different prominent labels. He is arguably most well known for En Noir, a company with a darker aesthetic and higher-end pricing that produces in small batches, which launched in 2012. Garcia is also involved with Black Scale, a company he called a true streetwear brand. It was founded in 2007 by Garcia’s friend Michael “Mega” Yabut and his partner Alfred De Tagle, out of the iconic Huf boutique in San Francisco, and Garcia joined early on. Today, you can only buy Black Scale online and at the company’s monobranded stores, which Garcia said will reopen in the next six to nine months, starting w