Creating Fashion Outside the Confines of Reality | Operator, Tribute Brand | MVFW 2022 Panel Series

What happens to fashion when it no longer has to look like clothing? David Cash hosts the art house Operator (Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti), Kadine James of Yahoo, digital fashion designer Assaf Reeb, Regina Turbina of Artisant.io and Replicant Fashion, and Gala Marija Vrbanić of Tribute Brand on Day 2 of Metaverse Fashion Week, recorded in Decentraland in March 2022. The panel talks about utility, digital bodies, ultra-realistic avatars, and a signal blocking trench coat reimagined as a metaverse wearable. Chapters 00:00 Welcome and panel introductions 01:28 Operator introduces their practice 03:39 Kadine James on Yahoo and The Immersive Kind 07:21 Assaf Reeb on MetaHumans and pixel streaming 12:08 Regina Turbina on Replicant Fashion 15:29 Gala Marija Vrbanić on Tribute Brand 17:52 Tangible digital fashion and the box outfit 23:30 Digital bodies and The Electric City 29:03 Realistic avatars, virtual apes, and many platforms 35:20 Blending realities with digital try-ons 40:11 Operator on concept and the signal blocking trench coat 45:33 Closing thoughts Key topics • Fashion that does not need to look like clothing, including Tribute Brand's box outfit idea • Utility and self-expression as the value of digital garments • Digital bodies, transhumanism, and Yahoo's The Electric City in Decentraland • MetaHumans, pixel streaming, and designing for Desperate Ape Wives • Designing for platforms with very different polygon limits • Replicant Fashion and trying digital garments on photos • Operator's signal blocking trench coat and its translation into a metaverse wearable Speakers • Operator (Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti), art house • Kadine James, Creative Technologist, Yahoo • Assaf Reeb, Digital fashion designer • Regina Turbina, Founder, Artisant.io and Replicant Fashion • Gala Marija Vrbanić, CEO and Founder, Tribute Brand • David Cash, curator of MVFW (host) In their words "it doesn't have to be shaped as clothing" (Gala Marija Vrbanić) "Well, digital gives you suc