Our colleagues over at SP:BR had the chance to interview Patrick Langlois at his current new job at the ÉNERGIE 94.3 Montréal radio and got to ask him a couple of interesting questions. As you surely remember, Patrick, former merch guy, cameraman and photographer of Simple Plan (until 2009), is also one of the founders of Role Model Clothing – alongside Pierre and Chuck. This clothing company, which to Simple Plan fans has probably similar meaning as Famous Stars And Straps has to the fans of Blink-182, started along with the start of Simple Plan, but unfortunately around 2010 Role Model Clothing slowly disappeared, even despite rumors of it coming back and a “coming soon” logo that has been on the brand’s website for many following years.

In the 2013 SimplePlan.cz Skype interview with Chuck, we already touched the subject of what happened – that the guys teamed up with a certain company, in hopes of making the brand bigger, but things didn’t work out exactly according to plan and the owners of Role Model Clothing ended up splitting with the company. No more details regarding this split between the two companies have been revealed – until now. This new interview with Patrick shed some more light on this situation and Patrick also commented on his hopes for future re-appearance of Role Model Clothing – mostly after feedback from fans on his recent Instagram post, in which he posted new Rihanna merch, which features the name “Role Model”, written in a very familiar font.

Check out what Patrick said about Role Model Clothing – and what his possible future plans with the brand are – and definitely also make sure to watch the full interview with him below:

“The thing is – we partnered up with a company and the idea was to bring you guys high quality clothes and get better distribution. And that company.. they kinda screwed us, and they sucked. And they ended up owing us a bunch of money and we had to take them to court and then they declared bancrupcy… And after all that, we kind of looked at each other like: ‘Man, what are we do? Do we like relaunch, do we rebrand, do we start over?’ And Chuck and Pierre were on tour, I was in Montreal, just had a kid, and I don’t know, like, we didn’t have it in us anymore. I think that “failure” kind of like kicked us in the balls a bit and […] so we just decided to give it up.

But now, with Rihanna! Did you see? She launched her tour merch – it says “Role Model” all over. I have a secret plan to just relaunch some classic models, limited edition, on some good quality t-shirts and give all the profit and all the money to the Simple Plan Foundation. Just for fun, you know. Not for business…”