{"id":77371,"date":"2015-09-02T16:08:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T20:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/?p=77371"},"modified":"2015-09-02T22:16:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T02:16:09","slug":"felix-gesnouins-bangin-tees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/felix-gesnouins-bangin-tees\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Gesnouin’s Bangin’ Tees"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Text by\u00a0Jonathan Shia<\/a>
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Anyone who\u2019s ever worked with Felix Gesnouin<\/a>\u2014or even just seen his Instagram<\/a>\u2014knows that he has a wicked sense of humor. The French model is known for his backstage antics (juggling and rare feats of balancing among them) and his subversive Photoshop mashups, in which he can be seen Face Swapped with a dog, as both mother and son in a classic Piet\u00e0 pose, and hamming it up between Barack Obama and Karl Lagerfeld. But his latest venture, which, admittedly, started as a joke, has quickly become much more than just another lark.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Gesnouin launched a t-shirt line, Carne Bollente, with some of his Parisian art-school friends, with the idea of embroidering relatively graphic doodles of various sex positions on a line of t-shirts. \u201cWe were having a discussion about what funny things we could do, and one of the guys in the company said, \u2018We should draw some sex on the shirts,\u2019 and we just started laughing about it,\u201d he recalls. \u201cBut then we started working on the motif and trying to get them precisely done and it just turned into what it is today.\u201d<\/p>\n

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More specifically, what it is today is a line of t-shirts, now in a second run of production after a first batch of eighty sold out in less than a week, with cheeky, impressively detailed depictions of carnal congress, from an off-piste rendezvous<\/a> complete with toque and mittens to an intimate fireside moment with splayed-open book and a glass of red wine, all by Agoston Palinko, a student at the \u00c9cole des Arts D\u00e9coratifs in Paris and one of the line\u2019s cofounders, along with Jacques Averna, Leo Cogos, and Theodore Famery.<\/p>\n

But the sex drawings, popular as they are, are just the first in a planned series of collaborations with other artists, each of whom will be given free rein to remake Carne Bollente (the name comes from a genre of extravagantly tacky Italian porn films from the Eighties, which have also served as inspiration for, among others, Jeff Koons). \u201cEvery time we do a collaboration, the person basically takes control of our identity\u2014in collaboration with us\u2014and modifies the whole brand, so even our logo can change, our website can change, everything can change,\u201d Gesnouin explains. \u201cWhat we want to do is to get people from really different contexts and environments to collaborate with us to really find something unique.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Looking ahead, Gesnouin says the idea is to turn Carne Bollente into much more than just a t-shirt line, with ideas for pop-up shops and a burgeoning music label, a convertible\u00a0approach that feels representative\u00a0of contemporary sensibilities. \u201cOur generation right now is built on the Internet, on something which has absolutely no constructed identity and no moral structures,\u201d says Gesnouin. \u201cNothing is sacred anymore, and anyone can be anybody and do anything. So if you want to build a company which has a modern structure, you want to do something which is able to mutate at any time and just be anything it wants. We want to have something which is completely adaptable. We want to work with people from all over to build a very diverse identity. I think that\u2019s what\u2019s strong about us today\u2014we\u2019re not scared of doing anything with anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carne Bollete is available at Doppel Standard<\/a>, Brooklyn, Chez Moi, Paris, and Superstrat, Brussels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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