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Matières Fécales Makes History at Paris Fashion Week with 99 Models of Color and Banarasi Touch
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Firstpost•02-10-2026, 12:33
Matières Fécales Makes History at Paris Fashion Week with 99 Models of Color and Banarasi Touch
- •Matières Fécales staged the first-ever runway show at Place de la République with an all-model-of-color cast, titled 'The Ninety-Nine Percent'.
- •The collection embraced South Asian heritage, collaborating with Tilfi Banaras to weave hand-woven Banarasi silk into Western haute couture.
- •Designers Steven Raj Bhaskaran and Hannah Rose Dalton incorporated deconstructed saree silhouettes and raw-edged tailoring.
- •Models wore porcelain-white face paint with vivid, oversized streaks of deep red, a punk nod to sindoor.
- •The show featured models carrying unsettling figures of billionaires, and a portion of sales will benefit La Maison d'Allanah, supporting LGBTQIA+ refugees.
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Matières Fécales made history at Paris Fashion Week by staging a runway show featuring 99 models of colour for their presentation titled 'The Ninety-Nine Percent' at Place de la République.
Matières Fécales collaborated directly with the Varanasi-based artisanal label Tilfi Banaras to incorporate hand-woven Banarasi silk drapes, deconstructed saree silhouettes, and raw-edged tailoring into their collection.
Matières Fécales announced that a portion of the collection's sales will be donated directly to La Maison d'Allanah, a French non-profit initiative that provides shelter and housing to LGBTQIA+ refugees.
