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Going Pro

HOMEFIELD Apparel’s headquarters is tucked away in a nondescript 65th Street business park, where on a sunny Friday morning in July, I pulled up to the sound of Pop Smoke drifting from a boombox in the gym next door. The man I came to see, Homefield’s cofounder and CEO Connor Hitchcock, happened to be milling about outside, but he was absorbed in his smartphone, oblivious in that moment to any industry that wasn’t his own.

“I was actually texting with Ryan [Vesler] from Homage,” he told

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