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Mati\u00e8res F\u00e9cales F\/W25 The Other This collection is about being fearless in your identity. It\u2019s about walking into a room with your head held high, even if nobody wants you there.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 It\u2019s about getting bullied every day but still finding the courage to wake up and do it all over again. It\u2019s about being rejected by your family simply because of who you love and what you love. It\u2019s about never being able to feel fully safe and comfortable walking down the street in public, no matter where you are. It\u2019s about the pain and suffering of being the other within humanity. \u00a0 It\u2019s about letting your dreams and fantasies take over your mind in hopes of covering the deep sorrows of your reality. It\u2019s about dealing with so much hatred on a daily basis but still finding a way to spread joy through self-expression. It\u2019s about your soul coming to life in your imagination because it\u2019s too dangerous to let it come out in real life. It\u2019s about finding others who share the same internal suffering as you do and together transforming it into something beautiful. It\u2019s about our community that yearns to feel human through transforming into something beyond it. \u00a0 This isn\u2019t our first collection, but this is our first time manufacturing one. It\u2019s taken us a full decade to get to this point. Since the start, it\u2019s been about creating our own world; a world in which we can be free to express ourselves without limits, without fear. \u00a0 Every look was sketched 10 months ago in one sitting by Steven in our Parisian 30 m2 apartment in the 2\u00e8me arrondissement on top of a pizza shop. A singular vision transformed into lines on paper. Styling, makeup, accessories, and shoes all created from those exact blueprints.\u00a0 \u00a0 Our story begins with silhouettes that are sculpted and elegantly distorted into alienesque daywear. Hannah, wearing a razor-sharp tailored skirt suit in an Italian cashmere wool blend, was the first look sketched. Following that is a lineup playing on classic tropes of sophistication distorted and reimagined on a clan of bald and eyebrowless alienesque beauties. The tension within duality, a constant thematic in our work and our relationship as designers. \u00a0 Bold high-neck shearling outerwear and cropped concave bombers act as protective gear for transformation like a butterfly needs to cocoon itself. Sculpted tailoring is worn with our infamous Destroy jeans, a Madonna favourite. We first made these jeans 10 years ago for our \u201cAbondonner\u201d collection, shot in Steven\u2019s mother\u2019s low-income housing communal laundry room in Montreal. Introducing new destroy offerings like the chic unravelled suits in custom tweed made in France with leatherette strands weaved in and our slashed cut-out jersey dress wrapping around the figure. Cozy but wrecked mohair knit sets and relaxed cross-seam denim are pumped with posture collar silhouettes. \u00a0 The horn bag is our take on a power dressing bag accentuated with a BDSM whip clochette. Made in sclera black and toile beige air-brushed leather fabricated in Italy.\u00a0 \u00a0 Drawing heels as a child was where it all started. Christian Louboutin\u2019s red bottoms always felt like an act of defiance for bold beauty within a minefield of demure fashion. The collaboration feels like a match made in heaven and hell. We curved the pumps and distorted the classics to create something that looks straight out of a sketch. \u00a0 Haute couture finale looks are worn by our friends and chosen family, like Lewis G Burton, radical trans performance artist and mother of the London underground scene, through her INFERNO platform. When we had no money and nowhere to sleep, Lewis took care of us and helped us find gigs during our London days. Jenna Marvin, trans Russian activist and another extreme performance artist, is setting new heights for our manifesto \u201cProvoke Society\u201d.\u00a0 \u00a0 The unreal Debra Shaw wears the Winged Tuxedo, a suit sketched for her 10 months ago when we first created the debut collection. Imagery of Debra in McQueen by Nick Knight gave us insight into a world of beauty we never knew was possible or valid. It gave us permission and access to dream without fear.\u00a0 \u00a0 Hannah\u2019s finale titled \u201cAnge Arc\u201d is a wrapped micro hand-pleated chiffon dress with couture mutant wings bursting out of the bust; our take on the French couturier wedding dress archetype. A symbol of all the guardian angels who protected us during our battle to get here. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mati\u00e8res F\u00e9cales | The Other Fashion Show 2025 2026<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":12112,"menu_order":0,"template":"","sort_of_films":[109,217,226,218,98,224,225,221,222],"class_list":["post-12111","films","type-films","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","sort_of_films-arri-alexa-lf","sort_of_films-beauty","sort_of_films-defile","sort_of_films-event","sort_of_films-fashion","sort_of_films-fashion-show","sort_of_films-fashion-week","sort_of_films-live","sort_of_films-multi-camera"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n