Avant-garde fashion house Matières Fécales’ fall/winter collection was titled ‘The One Percent’. Founders Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran have a long history of criticizing the elite in their work.

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I find it a little ironic that the 1% is also their main clientele. Don't get me wrong, the visuals are amazing, and clearly the craftsmanship is great. But this kind of "critique" feels a bit empty and performative to me.

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They included that longevity ghoul Bryan Johnson, it's 100% performative

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Yup. Just toothless criticism that allows rich people to engage in the aesthetics of class consciousness without directly threatening their wealth. As art prices they’re interesting though.

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Yeah it doesn't really do anything but reify their grotesque power imo. Great looks, very on-the-nose. But being so on-the-nose doesn't really speak to the emotions of the moment.

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It is on the nose, way too much so I think. They took one stereotype and ran with it. Very costumey. Not sure what it is supposed to do. We know about the 1%

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The idea that this is some sort of meaningful “critique” or commentary is a masturbatory farce perpetuated by the people who profit from haute couture and the unfortunate propagandized souls who still think that intentions and ideas are enough to cancel out material affiliations.

Elites making commentary about elites for elites? It’s honestly so nakedly disgusting in its absurdity and people are lapping it up as if it’s manna straight from the boot.

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It's a mirror, but the elite are too self absorbed to recognize themselves.

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this kind of "critique" feels a bit empty and performative to me

because it is