I actually met a guy from Insight during my trip to London, and I was impressed with what I saw, then a few days later I spotted a new range of Insight gear available at Karmaloop. I didn’t really get much info from Insight (some great stickers though!), so I won’t be doing a follow-up brand profile, but you can expect to see more of them in the future.

I seem to be on a bit of a black and white kick at the moment, don’t I?

Costiness=$34 Link

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Tags » black • ce soir • French • insight • Karmaloop • t-shirt • white

Whilst I severely doubt that this design will reach the pantheons of greatness that Tom’s other famous design, the Communist Party, have achieved (it ain’t got no Threadless juice!), this is a damn good t-shirt design.Costiness=$16 Link [thanks, Karl]

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Tags » blue • France • French • funny • KISS • Lucky Threadz • t-shirt

I don’t get the joke on this design (something about equality maybe?), as is oft-discussed on these pages my French can get me, food, drink, directions and and pretty much anything in a builder’s merchants, but I don’t really understand the much else. Still, a very timely release from the La Fraise team since Lego turned 50 recently. And if you want to see what people do with Lego nowadays, check out this post from BoingBoing.

Costiness=€35/22 Links: Hoodie/Tee

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Tags » birthday • black • French • hoodie • la fraise • lego • t-shirt

When I first looked at this tee I thought “aha, you’re not getting me this time, Faircliff, this t-shirt is all about going to the beach!” Then I sat back, impressed with my ability to understand the French language, although admittedly the bucket and spade was pretty helpful. Oh, Andy. Andy, Andy, Andy, how wrong you were!’Sous les pavés, la plage’ translated into English means ‘beneath the pavement, the beach.’ This was a popular slogan used by student rioters in Paris back in 1968. The rioters would smash up paving stones so that they would have something to throw at the police, underneath the paving was a layer of sand, and what do you find at the beach… sand! Yes, even when they’re throwing rocks at each other, the French still managed to get poetic about matters.

This tee isn’t necessarily for sale, but if you’d like one of Simon’s hand-painted tees drop me an e-mail using the contact form and I’ll get a message to him via my friend Richard.

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Tags » black • French • paris • riot • simon faircliff • t-shirt

I think I like this tee, but its just so hard to tell when the picture above is all that I have to go on. When a tee has some large text on it, that would be fine, but this tee is made up of lots of little elements, it practically begs for a few close ups so that you can actually see what you’re buying. If I were to open a tee store, I would ensure that there were loads of pictures for each tee, just like in my reviews, because people are more likely to buy things when you can actually see what it is they’re trying to buy.But the colourway is clearly quite nice, people don’t usually put red and gray together on a tee, but I think it really works in this case, and the illustration looks like quite a lot of fun.

Costiness=€20 Link (only available in XL)

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Tags » French • grey • lapin • rabbits • red • t-shirt