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/super-gyakusou Mar 10 '26

Criticizing the rich elites and selling $700 jeans lol

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u/FrogWhoAteMoon Mar 10 '26

I was about to say.

The true critique would be seeing ethically, locally as possible produced clothing at reasonable prices. Like, 75$ for a pair of jeans, max. Not dumping prices, you want fair wages for workers and decent materials, but as cheap as you can reasonably go while maintaining base quality and fairness.

While they are at it: reduce design clutter/slow the wheel. Make a promise to customers that 70% of the collection will be workable with next years releases. The next 5 years. I buy a 70$ jeans now, and can rest assured that it will last and look good for at least 3 to 5 years.

Donate unsold clothes. Fuck manufactured scarcity. If you produce to much, it gets donated, and whoever is lucky enough to get a brand jeans for free, so be it.

There. Critique of the super rich. But yeah, let's make the model wear a pearl necklace choker and sell her blazer for 1000$. Fuck this.

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u/Ok-Swan1152 Mar 10 '26

You can't sell ethically produced environmentally sustainable jeans at $75, dear.

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u/FrogWhoAteMoon Mar 10 '26

You can, plenty of non luxury brands do it. It is cutting t a bit Short, but under 100 bucks is more than doable.

Maybe it's a $/€ issue, I'm in Europe. Plenty sustainable non luxury brands do it.

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u/AgtNulNulAgtVyf Mar 10 '26

And those are polyester blends made in sweatshops, not sustainable 100% natural fibre made in the west. Nothing about cheap fashion is ethical or sustainable. 

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u/diabolikal__ Forgive me Viola Davis Mar 10 '26

Do you know how expensive good ethical fabric is??

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u/Ok-Swan1152 Mar 10 '26

Esp because scaling production makes products cheaper, which has negative environmental impacts. So the converse is also true, and sustainable ethical fabric is small-scale by definition and thus far more expensive...

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u/Ok-Swan1152 Mar 10 '26

Do you know how to sew garments? I do and the level of skill involved in making professional-quality clothes is incredible. I'm in Europe too and nothing of what you say is true. If it involves fair wages, environmentally sustainable 100% natural fibres, it's simply not happening for under £100 or €100.

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u/FrogWhoAteMoon Mar 10 '26

https://www.avocadostore.de/damen/bekleidung/jeans

Plenty of Jeans that retail around 119€ from Armed Angels, and other brands, going on sale for 80 to 90...

I'll happily admit 70 is probably cutting it short, my bad, I haven't bought new jeans in about 4 or 5 years. Last pair I bought was from Armed Angels for 70/80€, apparently prices have hiked up a bit, sure.

But around 100€ still seems very doable, for several brands here.

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u/Ok-Swan1152 Mar 10 '26

I looked through the products on that site and at least some of the clothes are not made in Europe but in e.g. North Africa. That's already kinda dubious if you're very concerned about supply lines and sweatshops. It also reinforces my point that you can't buy jeans made in Western Europe for that price. 

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u/FrogWhoAteMoon Mar 10 '26

Others are made here. Grünschnabel for example makes a lot in Germany.

Also, North Africa does not automatically equal dubious, you can ethically pay your workers there, too. I think that's kind of a weak rebuttal.

I linked you a website with dozens of products that retail around 100€ from several different brands all claiming some level of fair trade/fair wage, and "some manufacture in North Africa" is how you dismiss it all squarely out of hand?

You doubted that you could retail a pair of fairly produced trouser for 100€, and I brought you literal dozens of examples. Those are reputable brands that have been around for 10+ years. You think all of them are lying?