Stylee Fridays: Black Frame Spring 2010 Men’s Preview

If we had to pull together a dream team of the best and brightest in menswear today, we would recruit just about every brand represented by Black Frame. The New York creative agency opened their doors to the press this week, and Malkiel (pictured and wearing Acne shirt, Woolrich shorts and OC boots) and Poppy (too shy to be pictured) gave us the tour of their spring 2010 menswear collections, with new offerings from Opening Ceremony, Adam Kimmel, Woolrich Woolen Mills and Acne. Besides digital lookbooks or catwalk pics, previews like these are the first time we get to run our fingers along the racks, and see a collection front to back. Check out the styles we’ve have pegged for next year after the jump.

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Video: Adam Kimmel’s Continental Cowboys

Last year around this time we posted a video of two psychopaths barreling down a steep hillside highway on skateboards wearing powder blue Adam Kimmel suits. It was probably the best fashion promo we’d seen outside of like Victoria’s Secret and Ghostface’s video about Wallabees. Kimmel’s latest video, of Mexican bullrider Rocky McDonald going the distance in a chic black tux, kind of makes the fact that we don’t ride bikes to the office because we don’t want piss puddle to spray up our t-shirts sound like baby talk. Regardless, the cowboy theme of the video and Kimmel’s spring 2010 line was partially inspired by Jim Krantz’s iconic Marlboro Man photography of the last few decades and probably had a little to do with Richard Prince’s pieces based on the same since Kimmel is well-known for his dalliances with modern art, so Kimmel hired Krantz to shoot it. View the line at Men’s Style and see what you can get right now right here.

Video: To Almost Die For Suits by Adam Kimmel

It’s Fashion Week here in New York and people are already fully tattered by its demands on time and attention. We saw a girl on the corner this morning eating pages of the Marc Jacobs feature in the New Yorker. That won’t help you understand him, girlfriend! The FADER style team will soon be posting their coverage of all of our favorite shows, but Adam Kimmel, whose art star inspired menswear we would like mailed to us in sizes we can specify over email, has sidestepped the hoopla and gotten us excited to wear powder blue suits for the first time since Easter 1988. Kimmel, with the filmmaking assistance of Ari Marcopoulos and pals, dressed up skateboarding nutjobs Noah Sakamoto and Patrick Rizzo in spring casual and sent them, at fucking terrifying speed, down a hill in Claremont, California. Our challenge to you: watch this and try not to move your head in attempt to steer away from cars and certain death.