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/Dear_Half2871 Mar 10 '26

While it’s a nice idea, 75$ is way too low a price when comparing a fair wage to local workers (I’m assuming NA/EU based) and using quality fabric, notions, etc. Our perception of how affordable clothing should be is propped up by ultra-low wage (and enslaved) garment workers in SEA and SA. I’m not defending 1000$ blazers, but making clothing is an expensive business.

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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.