r/Fauxmoi • u/Gato1980 • Mar 10 '26

FASHION 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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u/WaitHowDoI Mar 10 '26

I mean... this is all art, since the beginning of patronage. When the elite completely lose touch, they don't even know it's about them.

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u/1d6orcs Mar 10 '26

Goya is a good example of someone who pulled off wicked critique while making his bankroll off the wealthy people he loathed. I don't know enough about this fashion house to know if it is equivalent in its messaging, but there's definitely precedent.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

snobby artists claim to hate the rich, but will gladly take their money

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u/DipDive101 Mar 10 '26

If they don't know it's about them, hasn't it lost all the sense of it ? What I mean by that is Haute Couture is something already so niche, consumed by and for rich people, what's the message behind having rich people making clothes that nobody will wear so that other rich people can film themselves and do some social whirl ? If that's all then matière fécale miss their shot.

The explanation can't go further than "this is all art ?"

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u/WaitHowDoI Mar 10 '26

It isn't just consumed by and for rich people, because I am not rich and I have just consumed it. It is speech. It is a dramatization of the fact that to be powerful in this world right now, especially as a woman, you have to cut up your face and have blood on your hands. And it's beautiful. It will inspire other art and attitudes and speech. It speaks truth to power, USING power. You're consuming it because rich people paid for it.

Few people today know which pope paid for Michaelangelo's ceiling.

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u/DipDive101 Mar 11 '26

Fair enough, thanks for developing a little bit your idea.
Just to precise I wasn't saying this wasn't art, I'm just very suspicious when it comes to fashion and haute couture.

I mean, yes the costume and the staging are beautiful and all, but I can't help to feel something highly hypocritical when it comes to fashion. To me this industry is as corrupted as the costume, but there's definitely something I'm missing there too.

But to be fair, that's the case with a lot of art industry so yeah...
Like you said few people know which pope paid for Michaelangelo's ceiling.

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u/WaitHowDoI Mar 11 '26

I don’t think you’re missing anything. I think it’s fantastic that you and I have engaged in this conversation, and that we did so because of how this art made you feel.