Keith Hufnagel

Keith Hufnagel (January 21, 1974 – September 24, 2020) was an American skateboarding professional, entrepreneur, and fashion designer, the founder of the streetwear brand HUF.

Early life Hufnagel was born in Manhattan, where he grew up in Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village; his father was a vice president of Metropolitan Life Insurance and his mother a nurse. He attended Xavier High School on a track scholarship. After graduating from high school in 1992, he attended San Francisco State University but dropped out after one semester to become a professional skateboarder.

Career Skateboarding Hufnagel began his skateboarding career in his teens in New York City, at the Brooklyn Banks, an expanse of steep brick slopes and staircases under the Brooklyn Bridge. He turned pro in California in 1993, first joining Fun Skateboards and then signing with Jim Thiebaud of Real Skateboards; he also skated for Thunder Trucks and Spitfire Wheels. he opened the first HUF Worldwide store in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco in 2002 with his then wife, Anne Freeman, The boutique expanded into a chain based in Los Angeles and with stores in Texas, New York, and several in Japan, Hufnagel himself, one of the first skaters to have a shoe with his name on it, from his sponsor DVS, In 2019 Hufnagel decided to focus on apparel, producing shoes only in collaboration with other brands.

Personal Hufnagel married Anne Freeman in 2001;

Filmography

411VM: Issue 3 (1993) Real: Kicked Out Of Everywhere (1999) 411VM: Around The World (2002) Chomp On This (2002) DVS: Skate More (2005) Krooked: Kronichles (2006) DVS: Catching Up With Keith (2007) Real: Since Day One (2011) Supreme: "cherry" (2014)