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In the San Francisco Bay Area, Corvette, Mariah, and Sade (known collectively as the "Velvet Gang") regularly shoplift from the Metro Designers fashion chain run by designer Christie Smith. They sell the clothes they steal at a discount to make ends meet. Christie regularly appears in the media discussing her vision of fashion as transformative art. In one appearance, she lambasts the Velvet Gang as "low class, urban bitches."

Corvette, an aspiring fashion designer and admirer of Christie's work, sneaks into Christie's office inside a coffee cart, overhearing Christie’s mention of $100,000 suits. While trying to sneak out, she is spotted by Christie; she provides a false name but shares her authentic admiration of Christie, and tells her that she designs clothes herself. Corvette repeatedly encounters a mysterious man with a pinky ring. Sade relates a story of a friend who hooked up with the man, who turned into a demon and sucked out her soul while performing oral sex on her.

The Velvet Gang get jobs at a Metro Designers store, planning to steal its inventory. Corvette realizes one of Christie's new items is identical to one of her designs. Before the gang can enact the heist, their store is cleared out by someone else; surveillance footage shows a woman sucking all the merchandise into her bag. The gang track her down and capture her. The woman, Jianhu, reveals she is a worker at a Metro Designers factory in China. Due to the factory's poor working conditions, Jianhu's aunt died, and her mother has developed cancer. With her cousin, Li Pan, she discovered that the facility acquired teleporters to save on shipping costs. They stole the devices, and Jianhu is teleporting Metro Designers merchandise back to China to gain leverage in demanding better pay and working conditions for the factory workers. The Velvet Gang and Jianhu team up.

The gang's former coworker Violeta tries to convince them to help her fight the poor working conditions at Metro Designers, but they decline. With Violeta's help, they discover that the teleporter devices have two other settings based on dialectical materialism: the "situational accelerator", which heightens the conflicts inherent in whatever it is pointed at, and a "deconstruction" setting, which takes apart whatever it is pointed at into the elements that made it. After deconstructing some Metro Designers clothes, Jianhu sees that a cut on her hand has healed, as the cost of her labor has been returned back to her body.

The Velvet Gang and Jianhu infiltrate a Metro Designers fashion show with the help of the pinky ring man and use the devices to deconstruct the clothes. They find a room where the $100,000 suits are. The suits are worn by prominent media figures, who the gang order to remove the suits, but they also remove their skin: the $100,000 suits are skin suits designed by Christie for them to wear for propaganda purposes. The Velvet Gang flees the scene, escaping from both the police and the skinless people.

Corvette and Sade argue, as Corvette wants to destroy the $100,000 suits, and Sade wants to sell them to guarantee her children's future. Corvette agrees to sell them, sending Sade away with the suits as she uses the device to move between China and the US, running from authorities in both settings, as the factory employees band together to protect Corvette and Li Pan. The Velvet Gang reunite back at the fashion show where Violeta has staged a small protest. They use the devices on the "situational accelerator" setting to amplify the protests at both the show and the factory into strikes.

Some time later, a news report details that the strikes spread across the world and that workers have made significant gains. Jianhu finds that by deconstructing the clothes with the device, her mother's cancer has reversed as well. The man with the pinky ring admits to being a soul-sucking demon but asks Corvette to be with him anyway, saying that true love will turn him into a human; she declines to enter a relationship where she cannot receive oral sex. The Velvet Gang open a community center selling affordable clothes.