Matières Fécales

Founded in Montreal in 2016 by Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran, Matières Fécales (Fecal Matter) is a multidisciplinary creative house that challenges the conventional boundaries of fashion and human identity. The brand emerged through social media as a radical response to the world of high fashion, using extreme body modification, prosthetic designs, and avant-garde apparel to explore the concept of the "post-human. " The house’s trajectory reflects a growing interest in the intersection of fashion, technology, and identity, where the garment becomes a tool for personal transformation and social critique.

Across its core categories, the label has developed a recognisable identity rather than a broad, undifferentiated offer. That combination of origin, product focus and later development defines the brand’s current position. The label continues to work within the framework established by its core categories. Its visual language remains tied to those longstanding product and material codes. Those elements continue to shape the way the brand is read within the wider market.

The duo frames beauty as elastic: something expansive, unsettling and capable of holding the grotesque alongside the glamorous. Their practice treats identity as constructed and re-constructible, using fashion and prosthetic gesture to test what a body can signal when it is freed from conventional codes.

In this worldview, provocation is not an end point but a method for widening the frame of representation. The work often stages “otherness” as a form of agency, turning anxiety, fantasy and artifice into deliberate design tools. Independence is central, allowing the studio to prioritise concept, image and collaboration over standard product cycles. The result is a philosophy of transformation-fashion as a device for re-imagining the self, questioning taste hierarchies, and making space for bodies and faces that do not conform to familiar ideals. It also carries a critique of luxury’s polished façade, insisting that intensity and discomfort can be part of the aesthetic experience.