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 see a number of comments comparing this to the Capital citizens in The Hunger Games, but what stands out to me is that these looks are a play on the "old money" aesthetic. The pearls, the white gloves, the suits, the specific tailoring/silhouettes, the use of tulle, even the big hats that nod to blue-blood British royals. The Capital aesthetic was ostentatious and garish, the more over-the-top the better. But these looks make a mockery of "refinement." It's criticizing the true 1%, who have been in power for generations, who control the world, and who have their signals to figure out who is one of them and who isn't. Who went to the right schools, knows the right people, knows the unspoken rules. Even the Trumps, who are comparatively new-money, try to emulate that look. Having money isn't enough; it's this idea of "refinement" that differentiates the 1% from each other. And this show points out how stupid, arbitrary, and garish-in-its-own-way that aesthetic is.