This past weekend, Decentraland hosted the Metaverse Fashion Week, or MVFW, a four-day digital fashion event that staged wearables on virtual runways, organized discussion panels and housed shopping experiences.\u00a0A lineup of both legacy luxury labels and digital brands participated including Dolce & Gabbana, Etro, Tommy Hilfiger, Est\u00e9e Lauder and Elie Saab. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, digital-native fashion houses Auroboros, DressX and republiqe hosted immersive spaces and stores within specific fashion districts designated by coordinates on a map. Just like New York Fashion Week where events may take place across different city boroughs, so did Decentraland\u2018s MVFW, which materialized across different districts.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dolce & Gabana unveiled 20 full looks of Metaverse wearables that they specifically designed for the Metaverse Fashion Week. Playing on the term catwalk, they used cat-faced avatar models to showcase the collection. After the show, the full collection became viewable in an exclusive Dolce & Gabbana pop-up in Decentraland\u2019s Luxury Fashion District, curated by\u00a0luxury-focused marketplace UNXD. UNXD, as well as Vogue Arabia, were core partners of Decentraland in curating the traditional fashion brands at MVFW.<\/p>\n Recently, Dolce & Gabbana sold<\/a> a series of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) for about $6 million as part of another collection co-created with UNXD. D&G\u2018s next step into the Metaverse is the launch of the DGFamily NFT Community, which intends to give members exclusive access to physical and digital drops and wearables.\u00a0DGFamily holders will receive airdrops from this MVFW collection.\u00a0<\/p>\n #DolceGabbana<\/a> showcases at the First Metaverse Virtual Fashion Week hosted by @decentraland<\/a> in partnership with @unxd_nft<\/a>. <\/p>\n Enter the metaverse and explore the Dolce&Gabbana pop-up at https:\/\/t.co\/intOw2lxfy<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/pjo7rn4BMQ<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Dolce & Gabbana (@dolcegabbana) March 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Etro, on the other hand, decided to preview a real-world collection for their first fashion show in the Metaverse. Called Liquid Paisley, the collection consists of women\u2018s and men\u2018s ready-to-wear looks worn by 20 avatar models and celebrates one of the fashion house\u2018s iconic prints and color palettes. It also includes a range of must-have accessories, bags, hats and shoes. In partnership with UNXD, Etro also set up a pop-up boutique in the\u00a0UNXD\u00a0Luxury District full of other designer brand names.<\/p>\n @EtroOfficial<\/a> revealed the Liquid Paisley collection at the Metaverse Fashion Week, in partnership with @UNXD_NFT<\/a>. Be sure to visit the boutique in the Luxury District! \u2014 Decentraland (@decentraland) March 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Cointelegraph spoke to Shashi Menon, Dubai-based publisher of Vogue Arabia and co-founder and CEO of UNXD, about why so many luxury brands are jumping onto the Metaverse bandwagon. Menon said the idea to launch a proper fashion week \u201cwas the best starting point because it resembled something familiar.\u201d According to him, \u201cthe best way to get people into a space they are unfamiliar with is to use something that they are familiar with.\u201d<\/p>\n Two other Italian brands, Hogan and Giuseppe Zanotti, debuted NFT collections. In collaboration with\u00a0Exclusible, a platform for luxury NFTs and metaverse activations, TOD\u2018S Group-owned Hogan dropped the \u201cUntraditional\u201d NFT collection of the brand\u2019s first-ever sneaker. They set up a pop-up store residency in Decentraland within Boson Protocol\u2018s metaverse marketplace in order to sell its physical products as redeemable NFTs within the\u00a0Boson Portal.\u00a0The creative studio Braw Haus chose the five NFT artists that designed the collection.<\/p>\n Similarly, Italian footwear designer Giuseppe Zanotti\u00a0released a series of sneaker NFTs for MVFW in partnership with the blue-chip NFT community <\/strong>DeadFellaz and the neuno NFT marketplace.\u00a0This collaboration offers limited-edition digital-only Giuseppe Zanotti COBRAS sneakers. Zanotti originally released the physical version of these bright green shoes with the snake detail in 2021. While Deadfellaz is also offering physical garments through Boson Protocol, neuno is giving its neuCard VIP members a green bucket hat, two shirts and a bomber jacket to go with the COBRAS.<\/p>\n Metaverse-ready fashion house republiqe partnered with\u00a0a Paris-based e-commerce platform called Monnier to\u00a0launch a virtual accessories store within Decentraland\u2019s Luxury Fashion District. American brand COACH was among the brands in the store to convert an existing physical item into an NFT wearable. Republiqe helped to create COACH\u2019s first-ever NFT of its \u201cPillow Tabby Shoulder\u201d handbag.<\/p>\n Known as a clothing brand, republiqe showcased five bespoke outfits for its store and worked with other brands including Axel Arigato, Ester Manas,\u00a0Wandler and Osoi.\u00a0This virtual shop allows Decentraland users to walk in, view and purchase any of the designer apparel.<\/p>\n Metaverse Fashion Week has finally arrived!!!<\/p>\n Our store in Decentraland with MONNIER Paris goes live at 4pm today!!<\/p>\n We have a number of NFT wearables available from top brands, this is not to be missed!!!<\/p>\n to come and experience for yourself head to https:\/\/t.co\/AIcEGb3hGt<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/NZsNPpZq5U<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 republiqe clothing (@RepubliqeC) March 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Fashion NFTs are clearly a big trend as more and more mainstream designers debut NFT collections in the Metaverse this year. And, as fashionistas increasingly use NFTs to express their style on Web3 platforms and in the real world, the future of digital fashion will be likely favorable to those with the first-mover advantage.\u00a0<\/p>\n In addition to runway shows in Decentraland, DressX worked with Fendi to design digital garments used in an interview<\/a> spread for fashion magazineHaute Living in January.<\/em>\u00a0It was the first fashion magazine cover in the United States to display digital luxury designer garments on a human, and the designs could then be purchased directly on the Fendi website.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2022-03\/93aaa329-bb19-4811-bd09-d09bc48db80e.jpeg\" "\\"\\"")
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