Adam Kimmel’s Dastardly Cast of Fall 2010 Characters
- story Chioma Nnadi
If we could teleport ourselves anywhere on this Earth today, we’d probably be sitting front row at Adam Kimmel’s fall 2010 presentation in Paris right now. Kimmel makes his clothes an event as much a collection, often collaborating with other American visionaries, inviting interesting and attractive friends to model (Rita Ackermann, David Blaine, Doug Aitken etc), or even blowing up the whole thing into a gorgeous piece of filmic cowboy art. This season Kimmel worked with painter George Condo, taking inspiration from Condo’s 007 lifestyle (he summers in Monte Carlo and gambles at the Ritz) as well as his artwork, so it helps to imagine the artist sitting at the roulette table in a deep velvet blazer and plush slip-ons, puffing on a freshly rolled Cohiba. The resulting masks for his fall 2010 Casino Collection are a hilarious foil to all the impeccable menswear. Peep the full roll call of players after the jump, including Superdude and Albert Bino, and marvel at the erm, pointed placement of their anatomy.
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posted on Jan 21, 2010 in STYLE NEWS
Stylee Fridays: Black Frame Spring 2010 Men’s Preview
- story Chioma Nnadi
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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posted on Aug 14, 2009 in STYLEE FRIDAYS
Video: Adam Kimmel’s Continental Cowboys
- story Peter Macia
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.
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posted on Aug 13, 2009 in STYLE VIDEO
Video: To Almost Die For Suits by Adam Kimmel
- story THE FADER
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.
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posted on Sep 9, 2008 in STYLE VIDEO
