Adam Kimmel

Jack Pierson wearing ADAM KIMMEL

text by CHRISTOPHER BOLLEN
photography by ALEXEI HAY

 

Inspired by artists of the legendary New York School, downtown menswear designer Adam Kimmel has conceived a functional new line for the artist in us all. Adam Kimmel’s large minimalist West Chelsea studio looks out over the Hudson River. Nice. But on the ground below it’s pure NYC funk: a parking garage for postal trucks and a basketball court. Back inside, Kimmel has old photos of Beat icons like Larry Rivers and Neal Cassidy taped to his walls. The twenty-eight year old designer definitely keeps one eye on the past while the other is focused on the street. Inspiration has always been drawn from the fifties New York art scene, a period when macho, virile, play-it-their-own-way artists like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock were making paintings that required…