T-Shirt Caviar at Finroo

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We all want to savour the finer things in life, no matter what you love, there’s always someone somewhere selling a better quality, rarefied alternative that you’d give your right arm (or preferably cash if you can afford it;) for the chance of owning a piece of that exclusivity. The same rule applies to the creative t-shirt industry, there are limited editions and then there are black label tees at Finroo.com. One of our favourite t-shirt community sites out there has just upped the ante (again) and have released a range of highly limited edition tees for their connoisseur fans.

Everyone has experienced t-shirt envy at some point or other in their lives, many more of us have experienced exactly the opposite, and that’s over the saturation of our favourite designs. If you hate spotting your t-shirt on passers by, if you can’t stand the fact that many labels out there hit their margins by selling your most treasured t-shirts to all and sundry, if you’d like your wardrobe to be as unique as possible without going mad on haute couture items, then here’s what Finroo can offer you.

Purple Label

Limited edition of 200

Gold Label

Limited edition of 100

Platinum Label

Limited edition of 50

And the ultra exclusive

Black Label

limited edition of 25!

Now, expect the prices to rise depending on the label, the black label tees are a whopping $94.99 each which is steep I agree, but remember, only 25 people in the world will proudly wear your favourite design. So essentially you pay for the exclusivity, if you don’t care how many dopes are wearing your favourite design then I’d try K-Mart, if you do then here are some of my favourites on offer right now, although I can’t guarantee half of these won’t be sold out by tomorrow!

Daligantesk Tee

This has to be my favourite on the whole site, in fact, perhaps one of my fave tees of all time. I am a sucker for anything Dali, old Salvador was bonkers, totally crazy, well perhaps not totally, he had a killer painting style, although I did have to sit through a lot of lectures denigrating him as a mere showman and technically adept painter, I still love his work. Asides the excellent illustrative flair in Daligantesk aka Dali On The Run, apart from the great details and composition I particularly appreciate two things about this t-shirt. Firstly there’s the incorporation of an old analogue telephone handset, something that’s missing from one of Dali’s most famous and most ridiculous sculptures – Lobster Telephone (1936). The other is the positioning of a running shoe hanging from his ear, to many this might seem nothing more than nonsense, but that’s the whole point, because Salvador was a lover of the absurd. If he was alive today he’d probably make earrings from a pair of Nikes, his mind ran faster than his feet could ever take him. This piece deserves to be more, a giant mural outside the Salvador Dali Museum Florida. I’ve no idea why the museum is there, it should really be somewhere in Catalonia, but money talks I suppose. Anyway this is one a a range of fine t-shirts by a new start designer at Finroo, Vallois Loic, check him out. Funnily enough he hasn’t sold one of these as yet, I’m guessing the enormous price is a stumbling block at $94.99, I can understand why Finroo have bumped it so high but I don’t know if the market is ready for this yet, especially in the midst of a worldwide recession. Available in gorgeously soft bamboo tees for men and women, in all sizes, it will be interesting to see how the sales of the black label range progress from here.

Deadmau5 Tee

Naughty naughty. I love this tee even though I’m not a fan of progressive/electro house and Deadmau5 music, I do love the iconography that goes along with Deadmau5. The thing is I’m a little worried that Finroo might get into some deep doo doo with this design by Jakob Sikais – well it’s his design for all intensive purposes anyway. This is a tricky one, it’s a great design, I mean it couldn’t be more fun, I’d have probably rendered the mixer in vectors myself, but that asides this is a strong, nay powerful t-shirt. The fact is it would have sold out in seconds flat if Deadmau5 had designed it I know that for sure.

I’ll tell you why have misgivings. I’m an artist myself, I’m about to start printing limited edition works soon, and I have already been approached by people telling me they’re going to rip my work. There’s a guy in Florida who’s churning out t-shirts and a guy in India who is rolling off posters, I’m not a big corporation, I don’t have the backing of one, the only thing that protects me is my signature. I know the art market, limited edition prints, signed and numbered will sell due to their authenticity, rips won’t, and if they do, hell it doesn’t matter, it just means more publicity for me and higher prices for originals. I hope for the sake of Jakob the same thing applies to Deadmau5. I’m guessing he and Finroo are safe in this case, looking around Google a lot of people are ripping his mouse character, but it’s dicey nonetheless. It’s always best to test the water, see if anyone and their legal team are gunning for action, then take the leap. Who knows, maybe they have it squared, although there’s already one comment on the product page raising the same debate. Still a fine tee all the same. This is a gold label tee, 100 available, and it’s selling for $34.95 in all sizes for men and women here.

The Fly Tee

Perhaps too subtle for some, I love it all the same, it’s rather beautiful in a twisted kind of way, and despite the fact that a lot of you will no doubt protest, I think the composition is superb. Why? Because this design offers so much more emotional impact at this scale, it really jumps out at you, and scaling up the bloody fly would simply cross the fine line of artistic flair that Loic has once again shown in another classic tee for Finroo. It’s bigger than life-size, any smaller and it be rather a novelty gimmick, this is no piece of joke shop fashion, it’s testing the boundaries of taste and style to a degree that the t-shirt market might not realise it has the potential to reach – quite yet. Very polemic, cerebral, engaging, and even secretive to a degree. The world and all it’s inhabitants are dying of just about everything under the sun, life is viral, live the new flesh. Great. Platinum label release, The Fly is limited to a run of 50 for $64.95 on bamboo tees in all sizes for men and women. Exremely intriguing.

Polar Stand Tee

Now, I was rather torn between Polar Stand and Young Bull, both t-shirt designs are from the expert hand of Sean Flannigan, but I think this just about tops Youn Bull, if merely for the composition. It’s a traditional style I know, literally hand drawn and posted to the site, but that’s what makes his work so attractive. Notice the freehand shapes that gesture at a quality of fur without laboriously detailing every strand as many illustrators insist on doing these days. Flannigan is almost from a lost age, a time in the past when many botanists and naturalists, explorers and artists would set off on a rickety ship and record every minute detail of lands, plants, trees and animals unseen to the Western eye. Extremely evocative, refreshingly traditional, surprisingly simple, Polar Stand is a Purple Range tee available for $27.99 in all sizes for men and women.

Go fish for your own level of uniqueness, fashion needn’t be exclusive, but sometimes it might just be worth the investment if you view the art of t-shirt design as exactlyy that, art. All this and more available at www.Finroo.com now.

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