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• July 30, 2008
• The Goods

Eating Paste: T-Shirts With Sticky Ideas

By Jason Wilson

Jason Laurits, singer, turned model, turned clothesmaker is steadfastly plotting the demise of his competitors in what he has dubbed, "the hipster, graphic T-shirt arms race." When he isn't editing his ready-to-wear collection, Plaster, Laurits is hard at work silk-screening his graphic T-shirt collection, Paste. By imbuing his prints with a little less asshole and a little more narrative, he dodges the current trend in graphic snark. "The Stolen" T-shirt's foil-printed jewels hearken to the true history of our gentrifying spaces. "The End" reiterates the symmetry, splendor and glistening Jesus of Raphael's "Disputa"—dancing girls and harbingers of the apocalypse replace the saints and patrons. Our favorite is a subtle blending of ghetto-baby-mama and Nancy Reagan. It is, for Laurits, "the tee to end all tees." You pretty much have to be making out to get more tongue-in-cheek than this.

Available at Alter, 109 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, NY 718-784-8818; www.alterbrooklyn.blogspot.com. For more information go to www.pastetshirts.com.

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