Overview
Matières Fécales is a fashion and image-making project founded by Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran, developed from their early work together in Montreal and launched under the name Fecal Matter in 2016. The duo later relocated their practice to Paris, where it has been presented as an interdisciplinary label spanning clothing, prosthetics, styling and performance.
Their work is recognised for “non-human” silhouettes and tactile interventions that re-shape the face and body, often using sculptural add-ons and altered surfaces to produce an uncanny, alien beauty. Fashion profiles emphasise the duo’s interest in transformation and theatricality, and note the brand’s growing presence within contemporary runway and editorial culture.
Rather than operating as a traditional ready-to-wear house, Matières Fécales functions as a studio practice, producing looks and objects that sit between fashion, beauty and art. The project’s identity is built through imagery, collaboration and a consistent refusal of conventional taste categories.
Philosophy
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.
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