In Love with Adam Kimmel's Casino Collection
February 6th, 2010 by
Mui-Hai Chu
Adam Kimmel's Fall 2010 "Casino" collection - it doesn't get cooler than this.
Former architect turned designer, Adam Kimmel knows how to make impeccable American menswear and present it with more character, irony, and just pure badassness than anyone else. The amazing masks might be the first thing to catch your attention, but the detail of red piping on a navy blazer or image of a craps table lining a jacket or the masterful mix of velvet, denim, wool, and silk, will be the final arresting images that straddle your heart and make you go crazy for Kimmel's creations.
This season he collaborated with American visual artist George Condo (who spends his free time in Monte Carlo at the Ritz's craps and roulette tables) to create these frightening, humorous masks.
The past seasons have seen him working with bull-riding champ Rocky McDonald, Jim Krantz (the original Marlboro campaign photographer), Dennis Hopper, Dan Colen, and Gerard Malanga (Warhol's famed lensman and poet).
All photos courtesy of Adam Kimmel
