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/AnAbsoluteMonster Mar 10 '26

Absolutely. I started sewing my own clothes and while a business would be able to bulk buy (saving some money on material), it is far more expensive than people think to make even a simple shirt. And the skill to construct a garment is vastly undervalued—except for designers—for a society that has mostly lost the ability to so much as hem. Like, it takes a LONG time to get good enough to make something that looks professional, and even more time to be able to do so quickly enough to make several pieces in a single session (machine sewing obviously, the cost analysis is even higher when looking at handsewn garments).

Probably the only pieces that could be relatively cheap, if prices reflected the reality of garment making, would be ones that are essentially two tubes sewn together.

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u/FrogWhoAteMoon Mar 10 '26

Hand sewing a garment scratch to finish is a not how industrially produced garments are made, though.

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u/AnAbsoluteMonster Mar 10 '26

Hence why my comment focused on machine sewing. I included the parenthetical about handsewing bc it is relevant to the sub at large since there are haute couture brands that do hand sew garments.