There's unlimited creative expression through digital outfits, which now look increasingly more refined thanks to developments in 3D rendering and AR technology.
Replacing the physical
DressX founder Daria Shapovalova in a digital design by Auroboros. Propoents of virtual fashion say it's creative, sustainable, and a way to "wear" luxury fashion at a more affordable price point.On DressX, shoppers can purchase gravity-defying sci-fi looks from"tech-couture" brand Auroboros that might take a fashion house weeks to engineer physically, with some elements impossible to make at all.
"It's reinventing an entire supply chain," Monahan said."There's no water usage, there's very limited CO2 emissions. There's no samples being sent out or returns. There's no show rooms, there's no physical prototyping." They say an NFT marketplace is also on the horizon for DressX, giving some designs more exclusivity and the ability to collect and sell them on the secondary market.
"We don't need any more physical goods on the planet," said Whitehouse."Look at what's happening in landfills all over the world. Fashion is...in the top five most polluting industries in the world."As more of the fashion industry dips into the virtual world, the interest in staking a claim in it may, at first, outpace the technology itself.
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