Matières Fécales Fall 2026
For Fall 2026, the avant garde label Matières Fécales turned its attention to power, privilege and the mythology surrounding the ultra wealthy. Designers Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran anchored the collection in the famous warning by historian John Dalberg-Acton that power inevitably corrupts. Their starting point was deeply personal. Bhaskaran explained that the pair wanted to explore the tension within their own backgrounds, particularly Dalton’s affluent upbringing, against a contemporary moment increasingly defined by questions about who holds influence and how that power is used.
The result was a collection orbiting the visual language of the global one percent. The duo staged a kind of fashion anthropology of wealth, mixing fascination, disgust and aspiration in equal measure. A group they called “the immortals” referenced the Silicon Valley obsession with longevity, embodied most visibly by entrepreneur Bryan Johnson, who even appeared in the show. The casting leaned into the theatricality of the concept, with figures like Michèle Lamy and Daphne Guinness walking in garments that blended the duo’s sharply honed tailoring with more everyday staples such as denim, sweatshirts and knitwear.
On the runway those familiar pieces were pushed to exaggerated extremes. Jackets ballooned into cocoon shapes, shoulders hunched dramatically forward and gowns exploded into sculptural masses resembling metallic feathers or swirling piles of dollar bills. Up close, the craftsmanship revealed another layer of intention. Hand shredded tweeds, discreet elasticated waistbands hidden within severe skirts and the architecture inside deceptively simple cardigans demonstrated the designers’ technical precision. Bhaskaran insisted the collection was not meant as a moral lecture. Instead, it was an invitation to examine the allure of power itself, and why the symbols of wealth remain so seductive even when we claim to question them.
