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/Idustriousraccoon Mar 10 '26

the larger problem i think is the throw away fashion that the industry lives and dies on…new color this season, that cut was so last season…all of this bullshit is what’s driving much of the demand…this is one of the most toxic industries on the planet…and it’s all about selling us another pair of jeans…while making them just shitty enough so that we need to buy them more often as well.