""It literally means 'shit'," Raj laughs, "but for us, the concept has always been duality. To make that work, the clothes have to be well made - that's the only way a name like ours makes sense in a luxury space.""
""I'd always loved clothes and dressing up, but I guess I was about ten when the factory in Bangladesh collapsed," Dalton recalls, "I thought, well I have to learn to make my own clothing because I can't support this industry.""
""I was already sketching manga, but then I saw a Fashion Television episode on Jean Paul Gaultier and clothes entered my drawings," he says."
Matières Fécales is a luxury label founded by Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran that embraces a deliberate clash between beauty and grotesque meaning. The name literally references fecal matter while asserting a concept of duality grounded in rigorous craft. The duo prioritizes excellent construction so provocative naming can exist in a luxury context. The second collection, Hannah, showed on the official Paris Fashion Week calendar and presented durable, embracing, empowering silhouettes. Dalton trained in pattern making after witnessing a factory collapse; Bhaskaran, of Guyanese and Sri Lankan background, brought illustrative practice and Jean Paul Gaultier inspiration. The label sells through its website and Dover Street Market.
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