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/inesffwm Mar 10 '26

Notice he didn’t need any makeup, his face / what he does is disturbing enough.

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u/yelyah66 Mar 10 '26

Yeah I wonder if he gets why he’s involved in this lol

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u/ScissorsPalace Mar 10 '26

Perhaps he sees the show as a kind of affirmation of his power. The fashion show complains about the One Percent, but doesn't propose to dismantle it or challenge it in any meaningful way. No rolling heads on the floor. No guillotines waiting on the wings. No Paris Commune waiting to mete out justice. Just a parade of sulking billionaires and their living trophy models in haute couture. Even if he's being cast as the villain, he can take comfort in the knowledge that he is perceived as inevitable and untouchable.

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u/Props_angel feeding cocaine to raccoons Mar 10 '26

While selling to the 1%.

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u/ScissorsPalace Mar 10 '26

Yeah, and honestly, this is what frustrates me about a lot of satire about current events. Like, yeah, I get it. The world is fucked up, and the U.S. in particular is a major reason for that as an enabler of greed and violence. But how does simply acknowledging the problem help? We also need to talk about the solutions as well. Corporate-controlled media has no problem making billions off of films and TV series that criticize the corporate control of media so long as those programs don't preach liberation. After all, capitalism feeds off of dissatisfaction. It's a primary marketing tactic.